lousy

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: Like me, Ellison is a pretty lousy science fiction writer.
• really: By the end of my four hour trick the weather was really lousy.
• so: The band was really tight by now and the songs weren't so lousy.
• absolutely: But not Big kind Bush, he likes war and is as we all know from experience is absolutely lousy at waging it.
• rather: If so they did a rather lousy job putting 'em back up after the war.
• damn: I never gave up hope but I did feel so damn lousy.

Modifies a noun

• T-shirt: Swapped ( K vom ) " my job went to india & all I got was this lousy t-shirt " .
• weather: In lousy weather you can decide how you feel about museums.
• shot: I don't really show much emotion, especially if I have a lousy shot.
• job: Your father, with all his experience, has just been killed for doing a lousy job.
• economy: This lousy economy away the stilled forms the payday might it does take.
• deal: It was a lousy deal for the American economy.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: I was feeling lousy to the point where I didn't want to get up in the mornings.
• look: In other words, this beer would look lousy in a bikini.