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
Lucas Johansen Johansen, a defenseman who was the No. 28 pick in 2016, had some crummy injury luck in his seven seasons with the organization, but nine overall NHL games is tough.
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The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 21 June 2025
The combination of shifting pay laws and competition for workers has led many restaurants to boost base pay, with operators increasingly making up for customers’ crummy tips.
—Maya Huter, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025
If, after coasting through a crummy conference, it suddenly gets smacked in the mouth?
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
For most, the infection is crummy but not worth a visit to a doctor.
—Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
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The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 21 June 2025
The combination of shifting pay laws and competition for workers has led many restaurants to boost base pay, with operators increasingly making up for customers’ crummy tips.
—Maya Huter, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025
If, after coasting through a crummy conference, it suddenly gets smacked in the mouth?
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
For most, the infection is crummy but not worth a visit to a doctor.
—Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crummy
Adjective
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Similar protests occurred in Brazil over steep living costs and poor healthcare and education ahead of the country hosting the 2014 World Cup tournament.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Over time, dysfunctional breathing reinforces poor posture and scapular instability.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The game didn’t start bad for the Giants.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Apparently, Grier forgot his own words, because the lines that the Dolphins have built are collectively their worst this decade, something evident in a crushing 27-24 loss to Carolina, a game in which Miami blew a 17-0 lead.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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While that might be great for the profitability in real estate, in consumer goods and apparel, that’s horrible.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Oct. 2025
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In the past, the Soviet Union had a horrible impact on Georgian wine.—
Jessica Jungbauer,
Vogue,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That's a terrible average to bet your life on.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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When his estranged daughter Sam tracks him down, in a last-ditch effort to dig her way out of serious trouble, Mickey must choose between rekindling his relationship with his daughter in the face of a terrible tragedy or pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Many of the European players were subjected to dreadful abuse from the galleries, unprintable vulgarities and some deeply personal insults.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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New York Mets team owner Steve Cohen addressed disappointed fans on Monday after the team suffered a dreadful collapse and missed the postseason.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Either way, these tech vendors had established a history of getting customers to adopt substandard technology in order to close a deal.—
Chris Degnan,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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For such a popular restaurant, Matsuri tolerates a lot of flies, unwashed walls and substandard handwashing, as detailed in a Miami Herald story this week on last week’s inspection.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The scene, which was not in Stephenie Meyer's 2008 book that the movie was adapted from, raised eyebrows for its brutal killings of vampires Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) and Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone), as well as werewolves Seth (Booboo Stewart) and Leah Clearwater (Julia Jones).—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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In a new era of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This is what passes as development these days, and what comes out of the Chad Powers process is mostly lousy, a corporate exercise in content alchemy that plays like a coloring book where the outlines are already drawn.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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Earlier in his career, Klein was known, despite lousy grades in math, as a coolly analytical voice on health-care policy and other technocratic arguments.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Crummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crummy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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