as in terrible
of low quality
a crappy radio that immediately broke
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Recent Examples of crappy
To turn Middleton and McCollum and two crappy picks into AD and Trae Young is pretty impressive.
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Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
Musk recognizes that making cars is a crappy business in the AI era, especially when China is willing to subsidize them and flood the market with cheap alternatives.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 30 Jan. 2026
In reality, crappy collaboration costs individuals, teams, and organizations real time and money.
—Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
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
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Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
Musk recognizes that making cars is a crappy business in the AI era, especially when China is willing to subsidize them and flood the market with cheap alternatives.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 30 Jan. 2026
In reality, crappy collaboration costs individuals, teams, and organizations real time and money.
—Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crappy
Adjective
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Even if the football this summer is terrible, plenty of the teams are going to look great.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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In the 1970s-1980s, all the agricultural talk in the Mississippi Delta was whether the boll weevil would be terrible or just awful this coming fall.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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While youth suicide remains a leading cause of death, the youth suicide rate is down in Colorado, and the number of kids reporting poor mental health also dropped from 23% in 2023 to 14% in 2025.—
Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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The launch came amid overcast skies and a weather forecast that was reduced to just a 75% chance for good conditions, according to Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron, which also noted a moderate risk for poor conditions at the booster landing site.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Meanwhile, compounding pharmacies that sell cheaper knockoffs of these products are disrupting the marketplace.—
CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
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Mail-only ballot elections are a cheaper, though slightly uncommon, alternative for cities when no candidates are on the ballot, like in the case of the upcoming April 21 election in the City Beautiful, according to Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Nobody paid much attention to weather forecasts because winter days were usually the same and, if different, just worse.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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Jokic eagerly took advantage of bad transition defense, looking for long outlet passes to Braun and Bruce Brown.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
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During the Middle Ages, for example, many contemporary accounts from both Christian and Muslim societies depicted their opposing side as barbaric, blasphemous, and inferior.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
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So, are these new Reese’s products inferior to the original?—
Jonathan Deutsch,
The Conversation,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But it’s most often used in a more contemporary story as an ancestral home of an ancient, perhaps even rotten Establishment.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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False teeth had been used since Colonial years, with various attempts to replace rotten teeth that had been extracted to avoid illness.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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