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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOUS'Y, a. s as z. [louse.]
1. Swarming with lice; infested with lice.
2. Mean; low; contemptible; as a lousy knave.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky]
2: infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
3: vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" [syn: dirty, filthy, lousy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (lousier; -est) Date: 14th century 1. infested with lice 2. a. totally repulsive ; contemptible b. miserably poor or inferior <got lousy grades> c. somewhat ill <felt lousy after dinner> d. amply supplied ; replete <lousy with money> 3. of silk fuzzy and specked because of splitting of the fiber • lousily adverb • lousiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (lousier, lousiest) 1 infested with lice. 2 colloq. very bad; disgusting (also as a term of general disparagement). 3 colloq. (often foll. by with) well supplied, teeming (with). Derivatives: lousily adv. lousiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lousy Lous"y, a. 1. Infested with lice. 2. Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lousier, lousiest) 1. If you describe something as lousy, you mean that it is of very bad quality or that you do not like it. (INFORMAL) He blamed Fiona for a lousy weekend... It's lousy to be the new kid. = rotten ADJ 2. If you describe someone as lousy, you mean that they are very bad at something they do. (INFORMAL) I was a lousy secretary... There can be no argument about how lousy he is at public relations. = awful, terrible ADJ: oft ADJ at n 3. If you describe the number or amount of something as lousy, you mean it is smaller than you think it should be. (INFORMAL) The pay is lousy. ADJ 4. If you feel lousy, you feel very ill. (INFORMAL) I wasn't actually sick but I felt lousy. ADJ: feel/look ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abominable, alive with, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beset, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, infamous, inferior, infested, lamentable, loathsome, low, low-quality, mean, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, pedicular, pediculous, pitiable, pitiful, plagued, poor, rank, ratty, ravaged, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, second-rate, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, squalid, teeming, terrible, too bad, unclean, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched