Lousy and Mean

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Lousy

Lousy adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.
Usage example: why, you lousy cheater!
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Mean is a synonym for lousy in good topic. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Lousy", when it comes to topics like despicable, very bad.
Nearby Words: louse, lousiness, lousing, loused

Mean

Mean adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.
Usage example: that was no mean stunt to pull off, especially with so little advance preparation
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Lousy is a synonym for mean in good topic. You can use "Lousy" instead an adjective "Mean", if it concerns topics such as hostile.
Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

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  • Film / The Longest Yard His lack of playing talent, however, helps the Mean Machine get the ball back after one of his lousy kicks was tipped by a guard and became a live ball.
    Source: Film / The Longest Yard
  • Film / Cliffhanger Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: For all his tactical expertise, Qualen sure is a lousy judge of character to form a band of henchmen that are so sociopathic and mean-spiritedly selfish for each themselves that they do not even like each other, much less trust and cooperate with each other.
    Source: Film / Cliffhanger
  • Patty and Selma have gone from just making mean jokes about Homer being fat, ugly, and a lousy father and husband who should have never knocked up their baby sister (Marge) to kidnapping him and locking him in a dirty bathroom a la Saw (the first one).
    Source: Flanderization / Western Animation
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