crap·py

[krap-ee]
adjective, crap·pi·er, crap·pi·est. Slang: Sometimes Vulgar.
1.
extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
2.
nasty, humiliating, insulting, or unfair: What a crappy thing to say about anyone!
3.
cheaply made or done; shoddy: a crappy job.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; crap1 + -y1

crap·pi·ness, noun
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Word Origin & History

crappy
1846, from crap.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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00:10
Crappy is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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crappy definition


  1. mod.
    messed up with dung; dungy. : Clean off your crappy shoes before you go in there!
  2. mod.
    lousy; junky; bad; inferior. : This has been a real crappy day for me.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
No more blaming poor in-game performance on a crappy controller.
However, this is a crappy year for jobs in your area.
Those answers flopped not because you accidently trampled someone's personal
  pixie, but because they were crappy answers.
Now the next generation has to pay the price of the prior generations'
  selfishness, in the form of a crappy state school system.
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