variants
also crumby
as in poor
falling short of a standard
the dry cleaners did a crummy job of pressing my suit
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Recent Examples of crummy
Our home is a crummy little apartment on a slight rise; and our second-floor door puts our ears close to, and at the same elevation of, the department’s siren.
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Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
Even Dani has a crummy night-to-day at the office, spectacularly misjudging the mark in her attempt to seduce Wallace and ultimately getting her ass kicked by Helen.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Writers didn’t want to do punch-ups on potentially crummy AI scripts or have their words (or ideas) cannibalized by large language models that didn’t pay them a dime.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
To make its new version of Cleo a crusader, the series has to make the Black community around her incredibly susceptible to superstition and immorality, and that’s a crummy bargain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2024
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Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
Even Dani has a crummy night-to-day at the office, spectacularly misjudging the mark in her attempt to seduce Wallace and ultimately getting her ass kicked by Helen.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Writers didn’t want to do punch-ups on potentially crummy AI scripts or have their words (or ideas) cannibalized by large language models that didn’t pay them a dime.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
To make its new version of Cleo a crusader, the series has to make the Black community around her incredibly susceptible to superstition and immorality, and that’s a crummy bargain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crummy
Adjective
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Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points and OG Anunoby bounced back from two poor performances by scoring 20 for the Knicks, who can win the series Wednesday night at Boston.—
Brian Mahoney,
Baltimore Sun,
13 May 2025
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Boston built big second-half leads on New York in both Games 1 and 2 at home, but squandered them due to uncharacteristically poor 3-point shooting.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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The Celtics never have a bad defender on the court.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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Too often over the last few years, the Red Sox have struggled to dispatch bad teams.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Hartford Courant,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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However, her tragic demise spooks and haunts Jen, since her death is incredibly horrible and sad, rocking the whole Capesode community.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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Jurors viewed for a fifth time in two days the video footage of the horrible beating that followed.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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Such legislation is meant to destabilize Pakistan’s internal politics, which is in no one’s interests, except those who promoted such a terrible idea in the first place.—
Christopher Shays,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2025
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Transgender kids, especially under the current president, are facing terrible rights losses and bigotry.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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Those dreadful days of yesteryear have been put in the rearview mirror once and for all.—
Danny Ventura,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2025
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Fedde was one of the lone bright spots from last season’s dreadful White Sox team.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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It was launched in the 1970s by the federal government as an alternative to public housing projects, which were criticized for segregating poor families in neighborhoods with low-quality schools and other substandard services.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
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However, human clinical studies testing specific therapies targeting inflammation and their impact on metabolic disease have had promising but substandard results.—
Danielle Weiss,
Verywell Health,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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When local Officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she’s left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
12 May 2025
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Bruno Silva via first-round KO This finish was absolutely brutal.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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The lousy economic model explains why Real Madrid and Manchester United are the only soccer teams ranked in the top 20 of the world’s most valuable sports franchises, which skews heavily toward the NFL with its strict salary cap and $400-million-a-year TV checks.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
7 May 2025
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However, there are a few good ideas buried under the weight of poor execution, lousy technology, dreadful marketing, steep pricing, or just merely something being ahead of its time.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2025
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“Crummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crummy. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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