Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inferior; worthless.
- adjective Miserable; wretched.
- adjective Mean; contemptible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective slang of very poor quality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal Of very poor quality.
- adjective informal, especially with "feel" Bad, sick, or depressed.
- adjective vulgar Covered in
crap (faeces /feces ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very bad
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I would never use the word crappy, but I must give Levingston credit for so nicely summarizing my thesis even if he does dismiss it—ouch!
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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I would never use the word crappy, but I must give Levingston credit for so nicely summarizing my thesis even if he does dismiss it—ouch!
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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Therefore it follows that a massive injustice is being perpetuated on thousands of children who get crappy instruction in crappy schools and never get a decent chance to go to college, even though if you had stuck them in a top-flight public school from 1st grade they'd definitely be Ivy League material.
Anya Kamenetz: DIY U, Educational Access, and the New Elitism Anya Kamenetz 2010
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Don't get sick (make healthy choices), and if you do get sick ...... (die quickly) I guess they should call it "the Crap-o (as in crappy) plan"!!!
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Therefore it follows that a massive injustice is being perpetuated on thousands of children who get crappy instruction in crappy schools and never get a decent chance to go to college, even though if you had stuck them in a top-flight public school from 1st grade they'd definitely be Ivy League material.
Anya Kamenetz: DIY U, Educational Access, and the New Elitism Anya Kamenetz 2010
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It's one of the reasons I don't talk more about it (other reason: not being able to do stuff and feeling crappy is BORING), but I thought it was worth talking about because it's a problem I haven't seen discussed much.
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I got all bloated and felt crappy from the yuck foods.
It’s All Part of the Process – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly « Looking for Roots 2009
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Do you think that she'll actually get off the bus this time, or let the FEW fans she has left stand there and wait for hours, in crappy weather just to blow them off at the last minute like she did just recently??
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It's not the music's fault Michael Bay stuck it in crappy film like Transformers.
VOTD: The Original Tron Gets Modernized Fan-Created Trailer | /Film 2010
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While you hear things like Guy Kawasaki's "Don't worry, be crappy", a good entrepreneur's crappy is better than 95% of people's excellent.
milosrdenstvi commented on the word crappy
Observed in the lead article of this week's Time Magazine. Even though there's hardly any stigma of vulgarity in such an adjective, still a little surprising to me at least.
October 26, 2010