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How to use the word lousy in a Sentence? Page #2

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Here's what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud, his promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He has done such a lousy job as president, you're lucky I didn't run last time when Romney ran because you would have been a one-term president.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You have a lousy record - 16 years you haven’t picked a winner. Please pick a winner this time.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a lousy number and we need to know more.

Prems Sikka

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we have begun to learn in Chicago is they do a lousy job of investigating( those complaints), you can't use their bad performance as evidence to say the complaint was unfounded. The problems begin to compound each other.

Samuel Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was very frustrated -- I still am -- because for decades, we've been doing dialysis with big machines that prolong the life of the patient a little bit ... and in addition, they have a lousy quality of life.

Victor Gura

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Fed is fixated on jobs and its ability to throttle inflation. Meanwhile unless we get a lousy jobs number tomorrow I think the Fed is going to be on the hook to explain themselves if they're not going to raise.

Jack Ablin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Remember Barack Obama had never run anything in government before, and we see what a lousy president he's been, i've run things. I've actually got things done.

Scott Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In your lousy f**ing Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with -- walking with black people.

Donald Sterling

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Lily Tomlin

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10 years ago

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Jean Anouilh

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10 years ago

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

W. C. Fields

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10 years ago

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudner

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13 years ago

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)

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13 years ago

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Anonymous

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14 years ago

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Lily Tomlin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Douglas Bradbury

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14 years ago

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Newt Gingrich

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

J. D. Salinger

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14 years ago

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

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14 years ago

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

John Green

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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