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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Vegas bounced back from a terrible loss to the Fever with an 86-68 win over the Sun on Sunday.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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And because of that, it’s shielded us from the terrible things that happen downstream in the supply chain.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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For certain situations, particularly if someone is in poor health, experts generally say claiming early makes sense.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
11 July 2025
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With poor finances, car and home loans will likely be rejected and life decisions like starting a family or getting married could be delayed significantly.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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With a price tag of $99.99, the half-size bottles weren’t exactly cheap by the ounce—but that didn’t prevent stocks from selling out fast, spurred by excellent word of mouth.—
David Thomas Tao,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Shop the Asus Vivobook Go 15.6-Inch FHD Slim Laptop, which is marked down to its cheapest price of the year.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
8 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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But there's also nothing worse than missing a connection that delays your trip by hours or even a full day.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
10 July 2025
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But conditions can be so much worse and the resources can be strained.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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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
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If the weather’s rotten, the show simply moves inside to the main USJ auditorium.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established air quality standards for two types: coarse particles (PM10), 10 micrometers or smaller, and fine particles (PM2.5), 2.5 micrometers or smaller.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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And Sánchez, who styles himself a modern, progressive man, surely knew how coarse and sexist these men were.—
Gina Montaner,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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