as in terrible
of low quality
a crappy radio that immediately broke
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Recent Examples of crappy
Ah, but this is the new Webb, whose secret weapon is … a pair of crappy fastballs.
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Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Having to spend your day punching up a crappy slide deck your colleague’s chatbot spit out is annoying, to be sure.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Paint houses, pick up trash, pave our crappy roads, mentor other youths, clean up graffiti, plant flowers, join the National Guard or the Foreign Service.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
And that comes off as, in short, pretty crappy.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crappy
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The groundbreaking research penetrated the last moments of the young nobleman, who suffered a terrible 26 blows.—
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History is full of cases where great bands make terrible records, yet history stands speechless at what the Clash accomplished here.—
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Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.—
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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.—
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Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have designed a new sodium-sulfur battery with higher power density and discharge capacity than before, enabling a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries.—
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Fentanyl is cheap, compact, and lethal at microscopic doses, produced through decentralized networks designed to survive disruption.—
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Iran is facing its worst drought in decades, raising fears of evacuations in Tehran while threatening the regime’s stability and nuclear ambitions, according to a leading environmental expert.—
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Keeping bad things out of my body.—
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The Heat had beat up on inferior opponents this season before Saturday’s ugly loss to the Pacers.—
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The result is an inferior copy of the original.—
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In a city in which the house always wins — and so many others lose and lose — the Raiders’ rotten run of futility is getting old.—
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Learn how to banish that rotten egg smell from your washer while keeping it fresh, clean, and odor-free.—
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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crappy. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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