That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
Source: tatoeba (2294)
Lousy
//ˈlaʊ.zi//
Synonyms for "lousy" (130 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (65)
Related word relations
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Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
4 entrieshas subevent
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
7 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 32 languages.
Aromanian
1 entries- piducljos adj (Infested with lice)
Bulgarian
2 entries- въшлясал adj (Infested with lice)
- противен adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Catalan
3 entries- horrible adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- pollós adj (Infested with lice)
- pèssim adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蹩脚 adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Czech
1 entries- zavšivený adj (Infested with lice)
Esperanto
1 entries- aĉa adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Estonian
2 entries- alatu adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- närune adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Finnish
1 entries- surkea adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
French
4 entries- bourré adj (filled with)
- de merde adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- minable adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- pouilleux adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Friulian
1 entries- pedoglôs adj (Infested with lice)
Galician
4 entries- de merda adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- piollento adj (Infested with lice)
- piolloso adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- piolloso adj (Infested with lice)
German
2 entries- lausig adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- verlaust adj (Infested with lice)
Greek
1 entries- ψειριάρης adj (Infested with lice)
Hebrew
1 entries- עלוב adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Hungarian
1 entries- tetves adj (Infested with lice)
Italian
2 entries- pidocchioso adj (Infested with lice)
- schifoso adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Latvian
1 entries- utains adj (Infested with lice)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- a uvunɗo adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Norwegian
1 entries- elendig adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Occitan
1 entries- pesolhós adj (Infested with lice)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- lusich adj (Infested with lice)
- velust adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Polish
1 entries- zawszony adj (Infested with lice)
Portuguese
4 entries- fuleiro adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- horrível adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- piolhento adj (Infested with lice)
- piolhoso adj (Infested with lice)
Romanian
2 entries- plin adj (filled with)
- păduchios adj (Infested with lice)
Russian
4 entries- вши́вый adj (Infested with lice)
- киша́щий adj (filled with)
- ме́рзкий adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- напи́чканный adj (filled with)
Sardinian
2 entries- peugosu adj (Infested with lice)
- piduciosu adj (Infested with lice)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ušljiv adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- ušljiv adj (Infested with lice)
Spanish
4 entries- fatal adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- infestado adj (filled with)
- lamentable adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- malísimo adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Swedish
4 entries- botten adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- full av adj (filled with)
- full med adj (filled with)
- lusig adj (Infested with lice)
Turkish
1 entries- bitli adj (Infested with lice)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tệ adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
- ẩu adj (remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded)
Welsh
1 entries- lleuog adj (Infested with lice)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
I expect it's his lousy personality that drives off the ladies.
Source: tatoeba (329015)
Tom did a lousy job.
Source: tatoeba (1026489)
Tom is a lousy dancer.
Source: tatoeba (1972604)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.