What's the difference between crappy and lousy?

Crappy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) The abandon of comedy is always there, though, the feeling of, “Fuck it, let’s try that TONIGHT!” because the audience’s expectations are different at a late-night comedy thing and they don’t mind crappy props and people reading scripts, and if it dies there’s always tomorrow.
  • (3) Without trying to sound arrogant, hopefully the awards will be an opportunity to talk to our contemporaries as peers, not just a crappy prison project, and say, 'This is what you can do'."
  • (4) Only these ones didn't have big pictures of Kate and Wills, but focused on things such as their own wages and crappy working conditions .
  • (5) "I decided I didn't want to have a crappy job like that," he says.
  • (6) It's been four long months since the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing thing, and just as we were forgetting just how crappy the internet connections are in Johannestoria, the Mandela story breaks.
  • (7) Suggesting that someone is doing a bad job while also implying that you would do a better job but also refusing to offer to do the job, or even to help, is a pretty crappy stance, and sounds a lot like someone who probably doesn’t have any friends.
  • (8) 8.30pm BST 30 min: Silva wins a free-kick, 30-odd yards from goal … 8.30pm BST 28 min: "How much do you think the high scoring tournament we've had so far has been down to not having a crappy new ball to get used to?"
  • (9) Lots of people invented crappy click-bait sites, and they’ve quickly dropped off the map.
  • (10) In The Wolf Of Wall Street, there's a shot of an honest FBI agent riding the subway home on his crappy government wage, while his day job is chasing down stone-hearted penny-stock cheats who make in a moment what he earns in a decade.
  • (11) One of Savile Row's bespoke tailors told the Times: "If the bespoke businesses were driven out by crappy retail stores selling poor-quality clothes, Savile Row's name would be irreparably damaged."
  • (12) Otherwise they have been characterised as overly sexualised, inherently stupid, hooked to crappy talent shows, computer games, screens, lacking in basic skills, lazy, rude and vain.
  • (13) But will she bother with crappy old England now she's destined for Hollywood?
  • (14) The Philly defenders were out in force, too: daveweigel (@daveweigel) Philadelphia > your crappy city.
  • (15) "She stayed in the same crappy places as the rest of us and mucked in and was fine about basically taking no money so what we had could go on the film.
  • (16) The journey goes something like this: Sit in cold, crappy station with overpriced food until slow train to Peterborough arrives.
  • (17) I don’t think any of them had worked in Poland, so they didn’t qualify.” It’s hardly worth it for the “crappy money” on offer, he said – but by registering they qualified for free healthcare.
  • (18) The visitors will obviously sniff at our crappy past, so we'd better make a show of it – "Ha-ha, these old things?
  • (19) If you have a crappy boss and she's a woman, the conclusion is "I had a crappy female boss, so female bosses are crappy."
  • (20) The problem isn't the fact that some female bosses suck, it's that if you have a crappy boss and he's a man, the conclusion is "I had a crappy boss".

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.