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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This is, on paper, a terrible idea for all involved.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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State of play: Cleveland is terrible at planting trees.—
Sam Allard,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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And another research team, using data from 2015 to 2022, observed in an article available in Energy Research and Social Science that poor income distribution correlates with social unrest when fossil fuel subsidies are removed.—
Aldo Flores-Quiroga,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Studies have also shown that exercising during times of poor air quality—for instance, when there is a high level of these fine particulates in the air—is detrimental to our health.—
Claire Maldarelli,
Scientific American,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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James said Costco is more interested in providing a good value to its customers than a cheap price.—
Nicolas Vega,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
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Tickets for adults range from $42 for a day pass to $98 for three days, with cheaper prices for ages 13 and younger.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Townsend’s warbler is named after John Kirk Townsend, who thought Native Americans were racially inferior and stole skulls from graves in a misguided and vile attempt to prove it.—
Joan Morris,
The Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2025
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Frontier revived its takeover efforts earlier this year, but Spirit had said the first offer was inferior to the one the two companies had discussed last year and sought an assurance that the deal would close and Frontier would not walk away.—
Reuters,
CNN,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Almost—the Cybertruck somehow manages to look worse in real life than in pictures; the confluence of angles where its various steel body panels fit together somehow serves to prove the exception to the rule that is the golden ratio.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, irrational exuberance can leads stocks of good companies to be bad stocks.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The unhinged reaction is proof the culture of the federal government workforce is rotten and needs dramatic transformation, not incremental change.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
23 Feb. 2025
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Still, power is power and the Albany Dems were getting ready to pass the rotten bill.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Memoir Dayspring Anthony Oliveira And the Word became flesh: coarse hair, crooked smile, the taste of salt on his clavicle.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
5 Mar. 2025
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Using coarse textiles like neoprene, felt and faux fur, each item was crafted with three-dimensional elements, producing garments that took up physical space—whether or not their intention was to remain truthful to the natural curves of the body.—
Elizabeth Grace Coyne,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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