sorry-assed

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sorry-assed

rude slang Pitiful; worthless; utterly inferior or inadequate. He always offers some sorry-assed excuse for being late. Well, if it happens again, he's fired! I always feel so self-conscious having to park my sorry-assed car next to the Mercedes at work.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sorry-ass(ed)

1. mod. sad and depressed. (Usually objectionable.) Man, old Charlie was about the most sorry-ass dude you ever saw.
2. mod. worthless; poor quality. (Usually objectionable.) How much longer do I have to drive this sorry-ass excuse for an automobile?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • in a sorry state
  • (as) worthless as tits on a boar (hog)
  • pathetic
  • dirt
  • (as) useful as tits on a bull
References in periodicals archive
"For reasons too terrifying to analyse I had found myself walking around Maccles-field town center one sorry-assed Saturday in 1975," he says of the day he bought the Patti Smith album "Horses."
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You get a look at some of these sorry-assed raggle-draggle women they got here?
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The result is somewhat different from the world-beat macrotourist tradition established by Peter Gabriel, Sting, David Byrne, and Paul Simon; and from more recent sorry-assed attempts to synthesize unlikely oral forms, like Enigma's MCMXC a.d., which delivered Gregorian chants to the sacrificial altar of a techno mix.
Deep Forest