1
as in lame
arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust
her cruddy treatment of her now-destitute parents, who had put her through medical school
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2
as in filthy
not clean
the refrigerator's cruddy shelves were a sign that the interior had never been cleaned
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cruddy
Adjective
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Cut to Culhane doing lame bits with chopsticks as walrus teeth.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Add in coach Steve Kerr willingly working on a lame-duck contract, and the Warriors could be looking for a new path forward within the year of saying hello to Butler, meaning that smell around Chase Center is one of desperation.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Jackson Lamb has long, greasy hair and a pot belly over which hangs a filthy old trench coat.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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On the other end, Ja’Marr Chase is coming off an absolutely filthy touchdown grab last Sunday.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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With the shutdown, people who would've come in to shop are opting to stay home or do something cheaper, according to him.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Oct. 2025
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For decades, candy corn was thought of as a cheap, year-round candy all children could enjoy.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This is not a dusty collection or hodgepodge of Gold Rush artifacts placed around a xeriscape.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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The old shelves with their dusty cans were gone, replaced by three wooden pillars, each with a small platform at chest height.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Yet Plemons imbues him with despair, finding a pitiful fragility in his aggression.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Jerry Jeudy has struggled, and the depth behind Jeudy has been pitiful.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The stained glass traces a hierarchy from the current dean to the Crown and then to God.—
Rick Burton,
Sportico.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Wood stained baseboards may need a gentler cleaning approach, such as Murphy’s Oil Soap, to protect the finish.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The clinic was dirtier than any of the animal hospitals that Strickland had worked in, with swarms of cockroaches hiding between the metal cages.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Also, dual water tanks ensure the robot vacuum is not recirculating dirty water on my hard floors.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Many of the town’s colorful homes, historical buildings and lush greenery have been reduced to piles of rubble that litter the now-muddy ground.—
Devon Sayers,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Ten years ago, while using GPS and weather-monitoring equipment, researchers developed a theory that a combination of ice, sunlight, rain, and high winds creates a scenario where the stones could feasibly be pushed across the firm but muddy surface of the former lake.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Cruddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cruddy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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