as in terrible
of low quality
a crappy radio that immediately broke
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Recent Examples of crappy
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.
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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
But while the end products are appropriately crappy, no two photos are exactly alike.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
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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
But while the end products are appropriately crappy, no two photos are exactly alike.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crappy
Adjective
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Ball told TechCrunch that imposing the supply-chain risk label would send a terrible message to any company doing business with the government.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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But this is some terrible people.—
Babak Dehghanpisheh,
NBC news,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Still, the storm will provide another test for the Wu administration, which was criticized for its poor snow removal results following last month’s nor’easter.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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The district’s poor spending practices and a broken culture long precede Allen’s leadership, according trustees and other parties.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Walters was referring to fund managers’ ability to drive earnings through concrete changes within portfolio companies, such as pricing discipline, working-capital improvements and management upgrades rather than relying mainly on cheap debt to chase valuation multiples.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
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Inside looked like any other beauty shop—wigs in the back, buckets of cheap sunglasses and door-knocker earrings, a distinct scent formed through the combination of chemicals and natural butters.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The dragon is said to scare away bad spirits and bring good luck.—
Staff report,
Daily News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Weapon system autonomously detects and classifies moving targets The company revealed that the weapon system autonomously detects and classifies moving targets in poor visibility situations caused by darkness, bad weather, smoke or dust kicked up by helicopters.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Yet the novel has its strengths, ignored by its critics and, presumably, by its millions of readers, who flocked to the sexy stuff, the inferior pastiche of Erica Jong, Jacqueline Susann, or Anne Roiphe.—
Mark Oppenheimer,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
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Baldwin thought embracing gay identity as a minority status meant confirming the majority’s view of homosexuality as inferior.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Other signs include a rotten-egg smell in the water, odd noises from the water heater, rust-colored water, and low water pressure.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Feb. 2026
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There’s no sticky floors or rotten wood smell.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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