She had a lousy childhood.

She saw him as the product of a lousy childhood.

It's no credit to my parents, therefore, that my lousy childhood belongs to me and not to a collector hungry for wonder and innocence.

The artist had a lousy childhood, was abused, was homosexual, whatever.

Susan Schechter says it can take years before physical abuse starts, even longer for a woman to learn "not to blame herself or his lousy childhood for his violence."

So you had a lousy childhood.

His pessimistic worldview, cemented by a Depression-era childhood, was tempered by an optimistic belief in extraterrestrial life that was rooted in the same lousy childhood.

On the one hand, why shouldn't anyone be free to make money out of selling his supposedly lousy childhood to ghouls?

You're still having a lousy childhood.