Well, you could see he really felt pretty lousy about flunking me.

Some days were better than others, but this day was turning out to be a pretty lousy one.

"But I've always felt that the quality of your typical public school lunch was pretty lousy, and the kids weren't eating it anyway," he said.

After all, they have had a pretty lousy 150 years of war, invasion, famine and national degradation.

I'd be pretty lousy if all I could do was produce an apple.

"These are kids who are aware of many ways in which world is a pretty lousy place," he said.

They may be fast, but something that size has to have a pretty lousy turning circle.

"In fact it's a pretty lousy world, if you ask me."

It always seems to turn out pretty lousy when I do.

Just to have it all wiped away from you is a pretty lousy feeling.