How to Use crappy in a Sentence

crappy

adjective
  • I think that was the crappiest movie I've ever seen.
  • I felt crappy all day yesterday.
  • By the way, send your kids to bunch of crappy schools, no school choice.
    Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But ones that require a crappy two plane rides to get to.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
  • Chalk this up to a crappy bullpen game and forget about it.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • And maybe a little drunk and sick from all that oily food and crappy wine.
    Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
  • This Valentine's Day, leave your crappy ex in the dust.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2023
  • To return by any method to that crappy White House dive.
    Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Have a mimosa and toast to the downfall of crappy men in music!
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 May 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
  • All this, by the way, with crappy clubs and crappier range balls.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
  • Again, got off to another crappy start and was able to fight it off.
    Josh Dubow, The Denver Post, 16 June 2019
  • Non-crappy teams can convey seconds in the top half of the second round.
    Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Region locking is just a crappy holdover from the DVD era.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Indiana Jones is on, but it’s the new, crappy one with Shia LaBeouf.
    Peter Frick-Wright, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2015
  • But the all-powerful Queen Bey cannot make up for the crappy acoustics.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The ghost of Leger and his crappy life choices loom over Camille and Issei like a dark cloud.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Learn a trade, get your degree (and don't quit), don't settle for a crappy job long term.
    Brenda Cain, cleveland, 27 May 2020
  • Models: Pretending to freely eat lots of crappy food since the dawn of time.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Oct. 2016
  • On the flip side, a crappy edit can lead to dead air and thoughtless cuts that dull the impact of both the picture and the story.
    Caroline Framke, Vox, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Go talk to Democrats in the legislature who have brought us this crappy project.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The Apprentice’ without the guy with the crappy orange hair.
    Annie Alleman, Lake County News-Sun, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The Fire had just lost 4-3 to a crappy Philadelphia side.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • What is great will always be weeded out over time, and what is crappy will fall by the wayside.
    New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • You’re handed a shirt, and some pants, and some crappy shoes, and a little towel roll with a toothbrush in it.
    Sarah Vitak, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That means no crappy old shells, or silhouettes that glare in the sunshine.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 30 Nov. 2020
  • And then to be in, again, the barracks with the cots and heavy bags and the crappy food.
    Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The place was small with a crappy little Pullman kitchen and a shower.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Ah, but this is the new Webb, whose secret weapon is … a pair of crappy fastballs.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Having to spend your day punching up a crappy slide deck your colleague’s chatbot spit out is annoying, to be sure.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025

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