lousiness

• “Drill SGT: Yeah, I overinflated the "lousiness" of Novak's driving.”

  "Morally speaking, what [Bob] Novak was doing here is no better than walking down a crowded street with his handgun, firing off .22 rounds at random."

• “Trees (especially fruit-bearers) are infested with the measels, by being burned and scorched with the sun in great droughts: To this commonly succeeds lousiness, which is cur’d by boring an hole into the principal root, and pouring in a quantity of brandy, stopping the orifice up with”

  Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees

• “Switching on the car's "Sport" mode only recalibrates the lousiness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Fiat 500C Can't Fail

• “The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.”

  The Huffington Post: Gretchen Rubin: 5 Common Happiness Mistakes: 'Boosters' That Do More Harm Than Good

• “For Katz's Jewish paternal forebears, who'd been driven from shtetl to shtetl by implacable anti-Semites, as for the old Angles and Saxons on his mother's side, who'd labored to grow rye and barley in the poor soils and short summers of northern Europe, feeling bad all the time and expecting the worst had been natural ways of equilibriating themselves with the lousiness of their circumstances.”

  NPR: Franzen On The Book, The Backlash, His Background

• “Feel better Chargers fans, at least your kicker owned up to his lousiness.”

  NFL Kickers Suck in the Playoffs | Manolith

• “The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.”

  The Huffington Post: Gretchen Rubin: 13 Tips for Dealing with a Really Lousy Day

• “He's smart as anything, sincere as all get out, he'll make a fine administrator and leader, and probably a pretty good strategist ... but as a campaigner I think he benefits enormously from the lousiness of the competition.”

  The Obama Infomercial: How To Spend Their War Chest Before The Election Is Over

• “We all dressed up in the style of the period, ate period food kinda and had a lot of fun - despite the lousiness of the rules.”

  May 12th, 2009

• “If Taiwanese really want to chase this issue, at least make the focus of critics on Ma's credibility, but not on the lousiness of errors itself.”

  The Ma "errors": Please Stop

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