LOUSY in Classic Quotes

1  The goddam table was lousy with glasses.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 10

2  Stradlater said you had a lousy personality.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 7

3  "Get your lousy knees off my chest," I told him.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 6

4  I'm not kidding, the hotel was lousy with perverts.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 9

5  Most people have hardly any smile at all, or a lousy one.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 8

6  I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 13

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

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 2

8  Sinus trouble, pimples, lousy teeth, halitosis, crumby fingernails.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 5

9  I can even read one of those lousy stories on a train at night, usually.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 8

10  If you take her to a lousy movie, for instance, she knows it's a lousy movie.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 10

11  Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 2

12  It took me about an hour, because I had to use Stradlater's lousy typewriter, and it kept jamming on me.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 5

13  He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 4

14  Anyway, it made me feel depressed and lousy again, and I damn near got my coat back and went back to the hotel, but it was too early and I didn't feel much like being all alone.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 12

15  I didn't have a date or anything, so I and this friend of mine, Mal Brossard, that was on the wrestling team, decided we'd take a bus into Agerstown and have a hamburger and maybe see a lousy movie.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 5

16  You take a really smart girl, and half the time she's trying to lead you around the dance floor, or else she's such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay at the table and just get drunk with her.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 10

17  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.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 1