sorry-ass

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sorry-ass

rude slang Pitiful; worthless; utterly inferior or inadequate. He always offers some sorry-ass excuse for being late. Well, if it happens again, he's fired! I always feel so self-conscious having to park my sorry-ass car next to the Mercedes at work.

sorry-ass

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In keeping with the economic realities impinging on the story, the film was shot in Louisiana for tax-incentive purposes; while the rundown locations are well suited to the story's gone-to-seed atmosphere, the absence of New Orleans color and the indiscriminate mix of tough-guy accents suggest these sorry-ass proceedings could be taking place anywhere.

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We, as readers, get that this void is Charlie's inability to love those around him, but all he seems to be aware of is that this hag-like oppression has reduced him to a depressed, sorry-ass, thirty-something, alcoholic janitor with erectile dysfunction.

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The phrase "his sorry-ass horse--his secretary," on the other hand, omits the copula before a noun (Bambara 87).

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I get the sense you're painfully aware that you're a sorry-ass. The Big Dumpee.

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The Fleshies are the kind of band that befits a riotous house party in the middle of a sorry-ass ghetto.