Lousey

Evonymus, Spindle-Tree. Sprinkle a ſufficient quantity of the berries, groſsly pulverized, upon the louſey head, and it kills the lice.

Under this head came complaints of lousey heads, and insufficient linen, and unchanged sheets and shirts, and defective cooking and hard meat, and sour mill, and no water supply.

I think the gentleman that has so much trouble with lousey houses has probably got a lousey hat. I would be as much surprised to find my poultry houses lousey as my hat. I agree to give any man a dollar apiece for every louse he can find in my houses.

[T]he filthy and lousey clothes are marked on this card “Lousey,” and they are sent over to what is called the lousehouse in the female yard and they are tossed in there; a man might happen to get lousey by sitting by somebody else, and when he is to get out in a week or so he is walking alive with them; […]

But fortunately, we finally landed in New Orleans, took a bath, shaved, cut off our manes and tails, diked ourselves out in new suits, threw our lousey clothes away; […]

Workers left because poor food or lousey beds drove them away.

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They can build a gorgeous house, but if they don’t have somebody who knows how to put in the quality granite, they’re going to have some kitchens and bathrooms with some lousey tile.