How to Use shitty in a Sentence
shitty
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All for a shitty forty pounds a day.
—Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
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So much of the art world is made up of shitty men.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
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When Elvis did those shitty movies, that did not help him.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
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Had a pretty shitty game the whole game.
—Mike Defabo, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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The world is pretty shitty right now.
—Kristen Arnett august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
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There are other small joys, such as shitty weather.
—Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
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Now, my shitty first drafts would make Anne Lamott proud.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
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Having now been back together with their shitty boyfriends for … a week?
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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These people are shitty people.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
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Media blitz on this shitty product has going on for far too long, feels like mask mandates and two weeks to stop the spread.
—Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
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Their shitty boyfriends blind everyone into being awful at both their jobs and their lives.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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If Jace ends up taking an evil (or even just classic shitty man on this show) turn, so help me God.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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But the tale of the shitty guy who uses his ‘saved’ status to avoid scrutiny of his current choices?
—Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
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She shouldn't be forced to have a shitty weekend to please people that purposely excluded her.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
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There may be shitty people afoot in Independence, but not in that little house, not tonight.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026
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What this necessitates is more rigor, more time on the phone, more miles logged in the car, more shitty biscuits eaten in coach.
—Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
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My older daughter and I have enjoyed horror movies both good and shitty together for a long time too.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
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Johannes acts as a stand-in for all the shitty men women in music have to deal with, the ones who condescend, belittle, mansplain, and gaslight.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 26 Jan. 2026
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When the two bump into each other, instead of making amends, Langdon calls his mentor out for his shitty behavior.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
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Speaking of classic shitty men on this show, Taylor learns about Dakota’s discretions.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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The video sees Dasha singing to the country-pop track from inside a shitty motel room, shaving her legs, and prepping for Rob’s arrival.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
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The suggestion that this rich kid might be partnered with a they/them-identifying trans law student and live in a shitty apartment for the optics seems a cheap shot.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
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To normies, this abrogation of procedure and consensus is the route to a shitty, substandard building.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Apr. 2026
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And what this array of talents had gotten them was a shitty job in a town outside Munich in the second division of a mediocre German league.
—Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
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The attempt at a borghetto, a small village, half Tuscany, half Puglia maybe, a borghetto with no soul and no genius loci, a shitty place, a borghetto di merda.
—Francesco Pacifico, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
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Shitty roads, shitty hotel rooms, shitty food, shitty promoters who begrudged them shitty dressing rooms and shittier sound systems.
—Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
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Once beloved, Miasma fell from grace over the years thanks to a series of shitty sequels plus later generations’ reappraisal of the films’ blatant misogyny and transphobia.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2026
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If there were a Mensa society for rationalizing one’s own shitty behavior, Pippa would be its president.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
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But unlike micro bangs and shitty exes, Marc Jacobs Beauty was celebrated and collected.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 20 May 2026
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Rather than focusing on a single area of expertise, Bleak Week anchors itself in a refusal to smooth over the universal experience of feeling, well, shitty.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
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