3. Very bad; as, to feel lousy; to do a lousy job. [PJC]
Squatting behind home plate for the White Sox this young baseball season, 40-year-old Carlton Fisk feels lousy.
Paramount's lawyers accused me of being a crybaby because I had signed such a lousy contract.
Complaints and Mice Are Up at Amtrak THE COMPLAINTS sound familiar: lousy service, long delays and mechanical breakdowns.
"The Equality Trap" is a generous book filled with profound personal insights and lousy economic theories.
As for Pneumo Abex, he says: "The idea that you can buy something you have never managed and assume you are going to liquidate is a lousy presumption."
They were lousy ones."
And on a day last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was soaring 41 points, he summed things up: "It's a lousy day to be short."
A well-tuned engine starts easier in lousy weather and runs better than a poorly tuned engine.
"One of the reasons drug testing has gotten such a bad rap is because people have had lousy policies," he says.
Afghans, who are used to driving on the right, say the Pakistanis are lousy drivers, and wouldn't have such nice roads in the first place if it hadn't been for the war boom.
"Based on what you see, you'd have to conclude we're doing a pretty lousy job," says a Dresden environmentalist.
Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn their lousy souls.'
He was, he said, 'a lousy reporter.
This year, a squeaker by Mr. MacKay combined with a rout of Mr. Dukakis might convince a few more Democrats that their problem is more than lousy advertising, the personality of their candidate or a "negative" campaign.
Nowadays, lawyers are being sued by plaintiffs who feel that their cases were bungled or that they were given lousy advice.
Mr. Mattera recognizes that we are creating jobs, but complains that they are lousy ones.
Chicago traders may be guilty of something, but the one certainty is that RICO is a lousy way to discover what.
"Earnings of more than 70 cents is clearly very good in a totally lousy economy," said Jack B. Grubman, telecommunications analyst at PaineWebber.
Most of the scripts are lousy."
She said some of the soldiers had already gone AWOL, "which is something we never advise anyone to do, because it's a lousy life." An Army spokesman in Heidelberg, Capt.
"He yelled at me, `I feel lousy, now get me out of bed,"' Macoviak said.
"Ethics School is ideal for the lawyer who comes unglued or has a lousy bedside manner," says William Davis, an assistant trial counsel and unofficial school dean.
"If you have enough companies telling you that conditions are lousy, you don't need an economist to tell you the same thing," she said.
"Those crummy mutual funds you're always talking about or those lousy stripped bonds you tried to sell me in 1983?"
So Mr. Speakes then asked Mr. Sansing to follow him around the White House for a day to prove he wasn't a lousy manager.
How much are we going to lose with 300 lousy points?"
So, it would seem to be an easy matter to figure out whether an institution is solid: 5 percent capital is good, 10 percent is better, 2 percent is lousy.
To save money on fees and get lousy performance isn't worth it."
Long-term investors need to steel themselves against panicking when the market has a lousy day or week or month. And they should realize that holding stocks for, say, a period as long as five years doesn't guarantee investment success.
Morton Thiokol managers, not engineers, directed the effort to redesign new booster joint seals, and the result is "an incredibly lousy design," he said.