lousy

The worst-case scenario isn’t as bad, but it’s still pretty lousy: 1.6% a year, or less than 40% total over 20 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Thursday was yet another example of domestic football being a lousy barometer of Celtic's capacity to win - or even draw - games in Europe.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

But its score was still a lousy 51.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

You were simply ordering from the lousy ones.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“My dad’s just a lousy old bank president.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

A team with a lousy recent record - six defeats in seven - and an even lousier head-to-head with their hosts went after the game with a vengeance.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022

“What if she’d been a more single-minded journalist and a lousier friend?” he asked.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

Some combination of the following: slower processors, less storage, and lousier cameras than flagship phones, almost across the board.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022

Like Holoborodko, he puts himself forward as a manager, hired by Ukraine to do a job that Vladimir Putin just made that much lousier.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

Few workers in America have a lousier reputation just now than truckers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

But let’s give them praise because they have had the lousiest of weeks and they came out fighting.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

It had to be among the lousiest of lousy.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022

Like even the lousiest Regency-era frippery, it has its intermittent pleasures, most of them visual.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

Armstrong has finessed this trick throughout his writing and producing career, exploring how even at their lousiest, human beings are more relatable than many may want to believe.

From The Verge ● Oct. 11, 2019

Lena only went because she’s a cheerleader, and she said it was the lousiest turnout she’d ever seen for a Condors-Raiders matchup.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman