crappy

adjective

crap·​py ˈkra-pē How to pronounce crappy (audio)
crappier; crappiest
informal
: markedly inferior in quality : not good or pleasant : lousy
crappy weather
drove a crappy old car
I woke up feeling crappy, so I took a sick day.
That was the crappiest movie I've ever seen.

Examples of crappy in a Sentence

I think that was the crappiest movie I've ever seen. I felt crappy all day yesterday.
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And maybe a little drunk and sick from all that oily food and crappy wine. Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025 All this, by the way, with crappy clubs and crappier range balls. Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025 Netflix revisits the crappy incident in Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, a 55-minute documentary out June 24, part of the streamer’s series on disasters in recent history. Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 June 2025 A lot of teams have a tricky offseason to navigate, given the rising cap and crappy free agent class on July 1. James Mirtle, New York Times, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for crappy

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of crappy was in 1928

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“Crappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crappy. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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