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adv. - In a contemptible manner.

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Usage examples (23)
  • Adjective, : That was a lousy thing to do. ,a lousy job; I feel lousy
  • You may be completely, reasonably, slightly, "lousily" (as M. Trudeau would say) bilingual.
  • You simply can't compare two lousily animated avatars to a talk with a real person.
  • I, normally lousily-memoried, can remember the author's initials nearly 40 years on.
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