Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lousy manner; in a mean or degraded manner; scurvily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Vulgar In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a lousy manner, poorly or vilely.

Etymologies

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lousy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • You may be completely, reasonably, slightly, "lousily" (as M. Trudeau would say) bilingual.

    Bilingualism: A Prescription for National Unity 1970

  • His comments in this area are a rare bright spot in his otherwise lousily conduct as president.

    9/11 2009

  • His comments in this area are a rare bright spot in his otherwise lousily conduct as president.

    Civil Rights 2010

  • The music is fun (if unimaginatively arranged) and having it filmed on a real, picturesque Greek island was an excellent idea — but those are about the only positives going for this lousily directed thing.

    2008 December : Scrubbles.net 2008

  • The music is fun (if unimaginatively arranged) and having it filmed on a real, picturesque Greek island was an excellent idea — but those are about the only positives going for this lousily directed thing.

    Weekly Mishmash: December 21-27 : Scrubbles.net 2008

  • I, normally lousily-memoried, can remember the author's initials nearly 40 years on.

    [eyewatch 1227] how stupid are people these days 2009

  • You simply can't compare two lousily animated avatars to a talk with a real person.

    Even More on Teaching Languages in Second Life 2008

  • Another lousily written article on Paul by Jeremy R. Hammond on Friday, Dec 28, 2007 at 9: 35: 49 PM

    THE RON PAUL PHENOMENON 2007

  • American foreign policy is suffering from a serious crisis: American-funded and armed forces in the Middle East Iraqi puppet forces, Dahlan militias in Palestine, Somali warlords, and Lebanese armed forces are performing really really lousily.

    Thursday, June 14, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • Not only it was a total ambush set, but it was lousily set at that and it is blowing on their faces!

    Breaking news: the N.A. ambush of yesterday further exposed 2007

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