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crappy

[krap-ee]

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adjective, -pi·er, -pi·est. Slang: Sometimes Vulgar.

extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.

nasty, humiliating, insulting, or unfair: What a crappy thing to say about anyone!

cheaply made or done; shoddy: a crappy job.

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

Related forms

crap·pi·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

It's kind of a crappy deal of the cards, but there are worse hands to be dealt.

Basically it tells me that it's a really crappy school.

Maybe your irrational knee-jerk idiocy won't contribute to crappy policy as it did this year.

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It's kind of a crappy deal of the cards, but there are worse hands to be dealt.

Basically it tells me that it's a really crappy school.

Maybe your irrational knee-jerk idiocy won't contribute to crappy policy as it did this year.

The men walked down the beach and my overhead light was gray and crappy.

Except for pumped storage the efficiency is pretty crappy.

You've had enough of those crappy earbuds you got for free with your phone.

Now the next generation has to pay the price of the prior generations' selfishness, in the form of a crappy state school system.

They protect crappy teachers and fail to reward good ones.

Keep buying your crappy toys and fuel guzzling cars all in the name of profit.

The video the company sent me to, regrattably, is kind of crappy.

No more blaming poor in-game performance on a crappy controller.

Many of my friends have had to take really crappy jobs or visiting positions.

In the end everyone discovered it was the same old crappy car.

Crichton was a crappy writer with no expertise in climatology.

They gave crappy advice and people got burned partly because of their incompetence.

Imagine that people at the bottom were busy originating crappy mortgages.

People drive less when they earn less, and they eat more crappy food from fastfood joints because it's much cheaper.

Should get their incentives aligned, with the added bonus of making sure my crappy mechanics prof gets the boot.

It is a crappy and amateurish writing style by the authors of the article.

We encourage you to ask the better of the two and save the crappy one for a less-discriminating lecture series.

However, this is a crappy year for jobs in your area.

The mediaverse is absolutely awash in crappy stats that nobody bothers to check.

Quite a few women look at the crappy car and small apartment and move on to the next guy.

They couldn't figure out anything but ethnicity and religion to keep people together in those crappy conditions.

Nobody really wants to buy the crappy power from a bunch of little generators.

The curious combination of good clothes and crappy novelty gifts is.

What is true is that crappy pizza is always crappy.

The one without, you can have all the work you want for crappy pay.

We breath in crappy air and chemicals that are causing all types of problems.

Armed with little more than crappy graphics, plastic.

They typically lead to five or six years of crappy growth and high unemployment.

The best way to get out of the crappy job/teaching mind-set is to do something else successfully.

But the number of crappy teachers in our public schools is still a serious problem.

And you can cover the iPhone with any available crappy plastic protectors.

And that crappy pink slab of bubble gum they used to stick in the packs.

Agreed on the crappy treatment in regards to the search.

It's the unbelievably crappy instructions, which don't explain that you've got to connect a standard wireless.

Nothing annoys me more in a bookstore than their crappy idea of organization for non-fiction.

What a crappy choice one has to make along with all the other physical discomforts and inconveniences.

What's worse, though, is a web browser that's fairly crappy.

We can only make it crappy during our species' time on.

Articles in crappy third-tier journals are given the same weight as articles in the flagship.

For not much more than crappy downloads you get pristine remastered copies of the music with great packaging, photos and notes.

And it's an ok way to vent about the crappy job market.

Maybe that's a bitter one because you root for a crappy team, but it's still.

We used to have a laundry chute, but it was so crappy that clothes would constantly get stuck.

I've sworn off crappy ink-jet cartridges, since excellent quality laser printers are cheaper to use and much better quality.

Do well in your new position and no one at your grad school will give a damn that you were once a crappy boyfriend.

It is a crappy site and the information is highly suspect.

That's not their fault, but rather the fault of the crappy high schools in the area.

I've seen so many of these kind of crappy outcomes from non-psych physicians dabbling in psych meds.

Those answers flopped not because you accidently trampled someone's personal pixie, but because they were crappy answers.

One of the sure fire ways to have crappy audio quality is to have your levels set too high.

It stopped the crappy comments and behavior forthwith.

Crappy jobs rain down on the worker, regardless of what faculty do.

I've test-driven them with shots and the biggest test of all: crappy well wine.

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Word Origin & History

crappy

1846, from crap.

Slang Dictionary

crappy definition

mod.
messed up with dung; dungy. : Clean off your crappy shoes before you go in there!
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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