What's the difference between bousy and lousy?

Bousy


Definition:

  • (a.) Drunken; sotted; boozy.

Example Sentences:

Lousy


Definition:

  • (a.) Infested with lice.
  • (a.) Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The centralised economic and political model is producing a lousy outcome that is unsustainable and must reform whatever happens next September.
  • (2) The first parasitic diseases to receive attention were usually those with distinctive characteristics as well as serious consequences, such as "gapes" and lousiness.
  • (3) The teams in the Worst Division In Professional Sports have been so lousy that a Least Worst Team hasn't even emerged when the teams play each other.
  • (4) (Hollande is already getting the T-shirt printed: "I intervened in Mali and all I got was this lousy camel.")
  • (5) They tried to teach us English, but it never worked, because the French had given us their lousy accent during colonisation.
  • (6) Contrary to popular belief, most cafes in Paris sell lousy coffee, but the barista revolution is arriving, and Nicolas Piegay opened the KB after discovering specialist coffee bars in Australia.
  • (7) As much as I hate those lousy – I love to hear them laugh!"
  • (8) Consequently the balance of employment has shifted upwards and downwards with less in between; as Manning puts it, the labour market has been polarising into "lovely and lousy jobs ".
  • (9) Real politics is mostly one damn thing after another – a big Commons vote, a shabby reselection campaign in Walthamstow , a lousy byelection result in Oldham .
  • (10) Regardless of the Yankees’ bad luck, the frustrated Hal is basically saying “I spent $214.8m and all I got was this lousy baseball team”.
  • (11) It produced 2,703kW hours (kWh) in its second full year (to 5 April), only 1% lower than the 2,730 kWh it produced in the first year, and that in spite of a lousy 2008 summer.
  • (12) Ed Balls has brushed off accusations that raising the top rate of tax to 50p is an anti-business move, as a second former minister from the last government accused the shadow chancellor of "lousy economics".
  • (13) The pay is lousy, the travel is brutal, the hours don’t work with being the primary parent, there’s no security, clear career path, sick-leave or holiday pay or maternity leave.
  • (14) If I dislike someone, it is all but impossible to conceal the fact, which is why I made a lousy waitress.
  • (15) But it has been criticised for providing a lousy deal for taxpayers by being too generous to the private contractors.
  • (16) We are in a lousy period because there are a lot of injuries,” he said.
  • (17) This isn't the first time Obama has turned in a lousy debate performance.
  • (18) In this two-hour near-monologue Bates played the fallen actor-hero forever ranting about being forced to work on tiny stages for lousy wages in front of philistines.
  • (19) lousiness, measures to detect the source of infection, respectively patients with louse-borne typhus and Brill-Zinsser disease.
  • (20) But to America’s unions, that misstates the state of play – they say the deal is a lousy one when the administration should be negotiating a good one.

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