| ADJECTIVE | all | lousy, icky, crappy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky | very bad |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | lousy | infested with lice | |
| all | lousy, dirty, filthy | vile |
| Sounds | law'ziy | |
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| Rhymes | Anasazi ... z / Z: 56 rhymes with ziy... | |
| Meaning | Very bad. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a lousy play" | |
| Synonyms | icky, crappy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky | |
| Broader | bad | Having undesirable or negative qualities |
| Usage of | colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
| Spanish | apestoso, asqueroso, podrido | |
| Nouns | lousiness | the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions |
| Meaning | infested with lice. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "burned their lousy clothes" | |
| Broader | dirty, soiled, unclean | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime |
| Spanish | piojoso | |
| Catalan | pollós | |
| Nouns | louse | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals |
| louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants | |
| louse | wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting | |
| lousiness | infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | |
| Meaning | vile; despicable. | |
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| Example | "a dirty (or lousy) trick" | |
| Synonyms | dirty, filthy | |
| Broader | nasty, awful | Offensive or even (of persons) malicious |
| Nouns | lousiness | the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions |
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