as in terrible
of low quality
a crappy radio that immediately broke
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Recent Examples of crappy
Curiosity might draw him, but a whole run of crappy calling won’t.
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Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
16 Apr. 2026
Helped unlock the next stage of their career, because work is crappy.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
The agents appeared to know young Markell was losing weight, forced to eat crappy food, whipped with a belt and slapped around.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
The outbreak follows something of a banner year for crappy cruises.
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Joe Wilkins Published Mar 18,
Futurism,
18 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for crappy
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
16 Apr. 2026
Helped unlock the next stage of their career, because work is crappy.
—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
The agents appeared to know young Markell was losing weight, forced to eat crappy food, whipped with a belt and slapped around.
—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
The outbreak follows something of a banner year for crappy cruises.
—
Joe Wilkins Published Mar 18,
Futurism,
18 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for crappy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crappy
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Thank you to everyone who read or contributed to this column over the years, who reached out to me with story ideas or tips, or complimented my terrible artwork.
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Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.
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Because of that, these hands suffer from high production costs, poor durability against impacts, short operational lifespans, and there are no existing solutions that engineers can readily draw upon, Wang added.
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The extreme heat can also affect people who are physically ill, especially those with heart disease or high blood pressure, or who take certain medications, such as for depression, insomnia, or poor circulation.
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The revolution won’t come cheap.
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Across six online experiments, the researchers showed participants a cheaper lower-quality item such as a sweater alongside a pricier higher-quality version.
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In two randomized trials conducted by Stanford economist Nick Bloom, for example, workers reported improved mental health, not worse.
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Heavy rain was bad enough, but lightning in the area is, obviously, nothing to be trifled with.
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More broadly, the idea that White players are inherently inferior no longer matches reality.
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This is because Austria would have remained on three points but with an inferior goal difference to Iran in the third-place standings (minus one to zero).
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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