as in terrible
of low quality
a crappy radio that immediately broke
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Recent Examples of crappy
In their dotage, a lot of these hacks were writing silly columns for crappy neighborhood newspapers.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
Another way to feel less crappy about NYE is to shift your focus away from yourself.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 27 Dec. 2024
The minute our host, Joe Manganiello, tells the group what’s what, C.K. zooms over to Parvati and Phillip, urging them to split up Rock (who just, like, last week grabbed a crappy case) and Alexis, who has once again grabbed an extremely good case.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Look, this case, this hush money case, was the case that everybody said was the crappy case of the four.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Jan. 2025
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
Another way to feel less crappy about NYE is to shift your focus away from yourself.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 27 Dec. 2024
The minute our host, Joe Manganiello, tells the group what’s what, C.K. zooms over to Parvati and Phillip, urging them to split up Rock (who just, like, last week grabbed a crappy case) and Alexis, who has once again grabbed an extremely good case.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Look, this case, this hush money case, was the case that everybody said was the crappy case of the four.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crappy
Adjective
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The boys now harbor a terrible secret of their own.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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But the point is, every team has a few terrible losses in the course of a season.—
Josh Yohe,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But there is another concerning trend and area that has to be improved — their poor record on second balls.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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The Heat holds a poor 9-24 record this season in games against teams currently with a winning record.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And a million dollars for a top analyst may be cheap relative to the value of the person’s work.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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Being cheap is completely foolish and a lot of people make that mistake.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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So, Apple Intelligence being inferior to Google’s offering doesn’t matter to them.—
Ben Sin,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Rocky, inferior to at least three of these, will be the winner, though.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Jayson Tatum kept the Celtics in the game most of the night with 33 points, eight assists and eight rebounds, but Brown had one of his worst games of the year with just 10 points.—
Jay King,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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So first, the argument for not giving President Trump and Elon Musk more power to do more bad, to move money around at will, to shut down more organizations and to give it our vote.—
Mansee Khurana,
NPR,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The smell of rotten eggs, from when officials carted her off to quarantine without letting her refrigerate her groceries, is long gone.—
Vivian Wang,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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There weren’t just ‘rotten kids hanging out at the mall,’ as was said in those days.—
Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Black Himalayan salt is a coarse salt that comes from the mines of the Himalayas.—
Lindsey DeSoto,
Health,
12 Mar. 2025
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My favorite combination is unsalted Irish Kerrygold butter mixed paired with clover honey and topped with coarse salt.—
Cathy Thomas,
Orange County Register,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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