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cruddy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of cruddy

1 arousing or deserving of oneʼs loathing and disgust

her cruddy treatment of her now-destitute parents, who had put her through medical school

Synonyms of cruddy

cheap, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, dirty, grubby, lame, lousy, mean, nasty, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, ratty, scabby, scummy, scurvy, sneaking, sorry, wretched

Words Related to cruddy

abhorrent, abominable, condemnable, detestable, execrable, hateful, loathsome, odious

disgusting, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive

discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignominious, shameful

base, ignoble, low, shabby, sordid, squalid, vile

blamable, censurable, reprehensible, reproachable

cowardly, craven, dastardly

unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous

Near Antonyms of cruddy

high-minded, honest, honorable, noble, principled, redoubtable, reputable, right-minded, scrupulous, upright

ethical, good, moral, right, righteous, virtuous

Antonyms of cruddy

admirable, commendable, creditable, laudable, meritorious, praiseworthy

2 not clean

the refrigerator's cruddy shelves were a sign that the interior had never been cleaned

Synonyms of cruddy

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, black, blackened, dingy, dirty, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smudged, smutty, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly

Words Related to cruddy

contaminated, defiled, germy, impure, polluted, tainted

insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, scruffy, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy

raunchy, scuzzy [slang], shabby, skanky [slang], sleazy, squalid

collied [chiefly British dialect], crocked [dialect], fuliginous, sooty

Near Antonyms of cruddy

clear, limpid, pure

cleaned, cleansed, combed, groomed, neat, ordered, orderly, tidy

bleached, purified, whitened

bright, flawless, perfect, shiny, sparkling, unspotted, untouched

taintless, unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, virgin, wholesome

Antonyms of cruddy

clean, cleanly, immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, ultraclean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied

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