A little bit of purposefully lousy filmmaking winds up going a long way. Stine is having a lousy time of it too. The review called Brown a good communicator but a "lousy" storyteller. A lot of times he doesn't, and you have a lousy movie. Many questioned how they would fare out after a lousy preseason showing. The writers tried to make this documentary seem as lousy and low-budget as possible. "I don't mean they are lousy lovers," Calvet said. That is we, intelligentsia, lousy, dirty, who read Camus. When Nancy cannot sell Chess's lousy product, she stops buying it. Fitzpatrick said "it's the lousy drink" that caused him to pull the stunt. And then I had a series of lousy jobs. Daxter often tries to impress women by using lousy pickup lines, much to Jak's chagrin. Some African-American psychologists argued Jackson was "a lousy role model for black youth". His editor (Christiansen) has begun giving him lousy assignments. Kidd refused, calling Moore a lousy dog.