It must be a lousy time in which to be a journalist.

What a lousy time to get a phone call asking for Myrtle.

So what, I got my face slammed down on the table one lousy time!

God, but he did choose the most lousy times to get gentle on her.

"You can end up with a geek and have a lousy time," she said.

It seemed he'd picked a lousy time to try to quit smoking.

When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody.

Seen from almost anywhere else, however, these are lousy times.