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
There are also the unhelpful phone calls from her husband, telling her to enjoy the spoils of the crummy motel she’s forced to reside in due to said hole.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Gear malfunctions, crummy weather, and bloodied limbs don’t stop us from heading into the unknown.
—Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
After his jaded ex (Donzelli) moves to Canada with their two near-adult children in tow, Paul is forced to give up the comfortable family apartment for a crummy studio loaned by a family friend.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
As with more recent subprime mortgages, brokers sold, bundled, and resold crummy contracts so many times that the people left holding the bag had no clue what was in it.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Gear malfunctions, crummy weather, and bloodied limbs don’t stop us from heading into the unknown.
—Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
After his jaded ex (Donzelli) moves to Canada with their two near-adult children in tow, Paul is forced to give up the comfortable family apartment for a crummy studio loaned by a family friend.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
As with more recent subprime mortgages, brokers sold, bundled, and resold crummy contracts so many times that the people left holding the bag had no clue what was in it.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crummy
Adjective
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Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Jan. 2026
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In recent games, KU’s communication has been pretty poor on defense and that’s led to players taking (and too often missing) wide-open 3-pointers.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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And this love makes violence and injustice unacceptable.—
Bao Phi,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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In a county of nearly 2 million residents, this is simply unacceptable.—
Nan Rich,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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His other go-to bogeyman, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, is now firmly in his lame-duck era as his term ends this spring.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
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Your ultra-lame social media posts (with awful production values) don’t cut it by a Colorado mile high.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The candidacy challenge contends that Wilcox used the wrong form to file for office in December and left off information that was required.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Jan. 2026
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An Amazon driver accompanied by her 16-year-old son came under fire after accidentally stopping at the wrong house in rural North Carolina, according to investigators.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Now, but as the statistics and figures come in here in Minneapolis, there's double-digit drops in crime, coupled with a lot of bad people and bad things being taken off of your streets.—
Esme Murphy,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Under President Biden, the FTC and DOJ slowed large transactions, suggesting that all big businesses were bad businesses.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Are there horrible smells wafting around?—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
7 Jan. 2026
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Jimmy Kimmel was horrible, and some of these people.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Often the boarding school is a site for terrible trauma.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
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The family settled in the Chicago area during a terrible snowstorm, a shock to Noorani's parents, who came from the tropical Tanzanian island of Zanzibar.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Kel’el was awful against Jay Huff in Indiana, and albeit in limited minutes, nonetheless had only one rebound at Oklahoma City.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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One particularly awful story comes from an 81-year-old Alhambra widower who lost $720,000 to a cryptocurrency scam, her entire life savings.—
Caroline Melear,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Crummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crummy. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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