as in terrible
of low quality
a crappy radio that immediately broke
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Recent Examples of crappy
The housing market was pretty crappy 10, 20 years ago.
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
And maybe a little drunk and sick from all that oily food and crappy wine.
—Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
All this, by the way, with crappy clubs and crappier range balls.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
Netflix revisits the crappy incident in Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, a 55-minute documentary out June 24, part of the streamer’s series on disasters in recent history.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 June 2025
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
And maybe a little drunk and sick from all that oily food and crappy wine.
—Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
All this, by the way, with crappy clubs and crappier range balls.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
Netflix revisits the crappy incident in Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, a 55-minute documentary out June 24, part of the streamer’s series on disasters in recent history.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crappy
Adjective
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But when terrible news arrives about her ex, all eyes turn to Ana — whose reputation isn't exactly sterling.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
21 July 2025
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There will be four questions related to easing the city’s terrible housing shortage, all useful and needed, and one useless question about moving our local elections from odd years, like this present year, to presidential contest years.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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Spurred by climate change, Canadian wildfires have increasingly exacerbated poor air quality across Milwaukee and southern Wisconsin.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Other critical factors that led to several brands exiting Japan, like Ford in 2016, were insufficient product lineups, and a poor dealer network.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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Prospect Capital is now the cheapest BDC on the market, trading at just 46% of NAV.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
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For years, the equation seemed simple: look for the cheapest fare, even if the trip was mediocre.—
Wilson Santiago Burgos,
USA Today,
20 July 2025
Adjective
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Instead of allowing senior citizens and disabled first-responders choose the plan that was right for them — and the vast majority have chosen traditional Medicare — de Blasio forced every one of them into an inferior Medicare Advantage plan run by a for-profit insurance company.—
Marianne Pizzitola,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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The bolder value vision is in using new AI capabilities to solve long-standing inefficiencies or problems that may have been targeted before, albeit with inferior technology.—
Beena Ammanath,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Earlier this month, employees at the Environmental Protection Agency, filed their own letter, with even worse results; 140 of them were placed on administrative leave.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
22 July 2025
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The alternative — keeping him around, highly paid and not played — would have been worse.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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But today that moral arc is as twisted as a gnarled, rotten root, and God Bless America has been replaced by the mournful dirge of Taps.—
Marci Alborghetti,
Hartford Courant,
3 July 2025
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The odor comes from a toxic gas that’s colorless and smells like rotten eggs.—
Tammy Murga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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Washington reds once had a reputation for coarse tannins and high alcohol, largely due to a handful of wines that emulated the California styles popular over twenty years ago.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Worker ants have long legs and antennae and their bodies have numerous, long, coarse hairs.—
Kim Luciani,
The Enquirer,
14 July 2025
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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