dreadful vs lousy

dreadful

adj
  • Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier). 

  • Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. 

noun
  • A shocking or sensational crime. 

  • A journal or broadsheet printing such reports. 

  • A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style. 

adv
  • Dreadfully. 

lousy

adj
  • Remarkably bad; of poor quality. 

  • Infested with lice. 

  • Unwell; under the weather. 

  • Dirty or untidy. 

  • Underhanded; mean; contemptible. 

  • Filled or packed (with something, usually bad). 

How often have the words dreadful and lousy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )