as in terrible
of low quality
a crappy radio that immediately broke
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Recent Examples of crappy
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.
—Joe Wilkins Published Mar 18, Futurism, 18 Mar. 2026
The group even has a crappy logo.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
Comments on a recent thread on Reddit’s r/Skigear forum second my crappy gear experiences, in which Redditors lament a lack of appropriate gear for women with curvaceous figures.
—Marisa McMillan, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
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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
The group even has a crappy logo.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
Comments on a recent thread on Reddit’s r/Skigear forum second my crappy gear experiences, in which Redditors lament a lack of appropriate gear for women with curvaceous figures.
—Marisa McMillan, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crappy
Adjective
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Residents describe ‘a terrible night’ More than 30 people were injured in the apartment building collapse, while emergency workers rescued 28 residents, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.—
Samya Kullab,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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And some were not kind to him on social media following the terrible first round.—
Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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Harper opened a small dance studio, on Forty-sixth Street; business was poor until Bradley was hired and revamped Delroy’s act.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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Still vehicle electronics can be damaged from reverse polarity, poor or wrong connection points or voltage spikes from improper equipment.—
Hartford Courant,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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The reason all of this is happening, probably more than any other, is that clipping is cheap.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Surprisingly the most expensive hairpiece so far has been Attenborough’s, which Fortune reveals was a hybrid of a cheap £20 ($26) wig at the back combined with tens of man-hours knotting individual strands of hair onto a lace front to create the centenarian’s familiar pate.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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West Ham showed themselves to be a bad team, less than the sum of their parts and wholly ill-equipped for the challenge in front of them.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Each reiteration and exaggeration of Mary’s bad behavior is another civic stroke of the chisel that perfects the monumental Lincoln in our collective imagination.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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Husbands are also inferior house cleaners.—
Joe Salas
May 09,
New Atlas,
9 May 2026
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Though Rogers is Christian, his story of transformation from weakling to hero certainly spoke to young Jewish boys and men, who were often inaccurately portrayed in the media and press as intellectually superior but physically inferior.—
Miriam Eve Mora,
The Conversation,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Imagine taking the rotten parking meter deal statewide.—
Jackson Potter,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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All around there was the pleasant rotten smell of dead fish in open air.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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