Did you perchance mean one of these? crafty, crusty
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to or containing cruft
- adj. Internet Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant.
Examples
“And as I said, the construction to map HTTP request to internal API call is kind of crufty and insecure.”
“A lot of the Old School Revival movement is less about those old crufty rules actually being better, but about bringing back “rulings vs. rules,” code for re-empowering the gamemaster at the table.”
“I like some things about old school play and the principles – “rulings, not rules,” sandboxing, etc – but the actual old rules are just crufty as hell.”
“This locks end users into the crufty Google video interface.”
“The social system that the ODP is pretty interesting, and while crufty and spam filled — the community dwarfs the number of poeple working on most other open projects.”
“CSS-powered Slashdot goes live The new CSS-powered version of Slashdot mentioned previously has gone live After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night...”
“After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS.”
“I have known cruft and its adjective crufty since my freshman year at MIT; that would be 1974.”
“A lot of developing countries with crappy telephone service made the leap to digital cellular telephony without a lot of the crufty intermediary stages that the developed world went through, leapfrogging the US and Canada.”
“EntitledWhen good interfaces go crufty, it relates to cruft through the ages, and how it relates to good (and bad) UI design.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crufty’.
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Desultory Digressions
Also known as EsotericWench's Word Holding Tank. These are words that have caught my fancy but I have yet to file in the appropriate list. If I don't capture them here, I won't capture them at all.
desultory, abjure, immethodical, mentalist, subvertising, schmaltzy, fartlek, interstitial, ear-rent, brouhaha, crufty, malefactor and 34 more...
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Valuseless
Of low worth or little importance.
Unwanted matter by drusky is a nice, related list.trivial, cheap, inutile, ineffectual, dross, floccinaucinihili..., gimcrack, frippery, invalidated, drivel, otiose, tripe and 91 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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katzenjammer, dysthymia, piffle, bumbershoot, crufty, sotto voce, gambol, inkstone, hotted up, knock-kneed, beggar belief, guff and 2 more...
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snowsim's Words
synergy, syzygy, serendipity, execrable, pulchritude, lagniappe, ishkabibble, frangible, absquatulate, abstruse, callipygian, dysphoria and 42 more...
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Guten Tag: The Original Five-Star System
Wordie lets you tag stuff. In addition to the usual randomness tags should inspire, I've decided to also rank how much I like words I encounter according to a five-star system. Because I'm only one...
gloriousness, i likes it, unabashed meh, crufty, hate hate hate
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unspoken
vestigial, ineffable, crufty, felicity, fugacious, euphony, macadamed, stat, pinku eiga, zoozoo
Tweets
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edwardvielmetti When referring to URLs, 'cruft' is the parts which are only relevant or meaningful to the people who created the site, such as implementation details of the computer system which serves the page. Examples of URL cruft include file extensions such as .php or .html, and internal organisational details such as /public/ or /~users/john/work/drafts/ (see also Clean URLs). Oct 31, 2007
uselessness Two stars out of five. If a word has this tag, it's a minor irritant that should probably just go away. But I'm not losing sleep over it. Oct 6, 2007