like crap
idiom
informal + impolite
: very badly
I sing like crap.
Note: If someone feels like crap, he or she feels very sick, unhappy, etc.
I got drunk at the party, and the next morning I felt like crap.
Examples of like crap in a Sentence
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Past trauma and hurt are valid, but those aren’t excuses for treating you like crap.
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Jenna Ryu, SELF, 6 Dec. 2024
Pet peeves: Treating people in the service industry like crap.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
Here’s an easy prediction: This won’t be the last time that pro sports owners show their willingness to treat their fans like crap, as long as someone is off in the distance waving millions of dollars around.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
Michelle Pfeiffer and Jonathan Majors look like crap.
—Lane Brown, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
By contrast, What Is New York looks like crap.
—Jody Rosen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
Felt like crap for weeks after getting it.
—cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
Even if the worrisome results of the Israel study are replicated by others, that would portend a widely circulating disease that makes people feel like crap for a week or two but in the vast majority of cases proves to be non-fatal.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 9 July 2021
The mild version is acute mountain sickness (AMS), which mostly just manifests as feeling like crap.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 May 2021
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Jenna Ryu, SELF, 6 Dec. 2024
Pet peeves: Treating people in the service industry like crap.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
Here’s an easy prediction: This won’t be the last time that pro sports owners show their willingness to treat their fans like crap, as long as someone is off in the distance waving millions of dollars around.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
Michelle Pfeiffer and Jonathan Majors look like crap.
—Lane Brown, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
By contrast, What Is New York looks like crap.
—Jody Rosen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
Felt like crap for weeks after getting it.
—cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
Even if the worrisome results of the Israel study are replicated by others, that would portend a widely circulating disease that makes people feel like crap for a week or two but in the vast majority of cases proves to be non-fatal.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 9 July 2021
The mild version is acute mountain sickness (AMS), which mostly just manifests as feeling like crap.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 May 2021
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“Like crap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/like%20crap. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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