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lousy adjective contemptible, shoddy, bad UK, 1386 Because of the association with body lice, the term was deemed vulgar if not taboo in the US well into the C20.- “Well. Go to sleep now. How was your dinner?” “Lousy.” — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 177, 1951
- [T]hey sing the praises of the working man’s red-state virtues even while they pummel the workingman’s economic chances with outsouring, new overtime rules, lousy health insurance, and coercive new management techniques. — Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, p. 151, 2004
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