How to Use crappy in a Sentence

crappy

adjective
  • I think that was the crappiest movie I've ever seen.
  • I felt crappy all day yesterday.
  • The worst part: This crappy energy lingers, sometimes for a couple of hours.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Every branch of Marsh’s decision tree extends from her formative relationships and experiences, even crappy ones.
    Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • By the way, send your kids to bunch of crappy schools, no school choice.
    Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But ones that require a crappy two plane rides to get to.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
  • This Valentine's Day, leave your crappy ex in the dust.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2023
  • To return by any method to that crappy White House dive.
    Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Again, got off to another crappy start and was able to fight it off.
    Josh Dubow, The Denver Post, 16 June 2019
  • Non-crappy teams can convey seconds in the top half of the second round.
    Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Region locking is just a crappy holdover from the DVD era.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Indiana Jones is on, but it’s the new, crappy one with Shia LaBeouf.
    Peter Frick-Wright, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2015
  • But the all-powerful Queen Bey cannot make up for the crappy acoustics.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The ghost of Leger and his crappy life choices loom over Camille and Issei like a dark cloud.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Learn a trade, get your degree (and don't quit), don't settle for a crappy job long term.
    Brenda Cain, cleveland, 27 May 2020
  • Models: Pretending to freely eat lots of crappy food since the dawn of time.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Oct. 2016
  • On the flip side, a crappy edit can lead to dead air and thoughtless cuts that dull the impact of both the picture and the story.
    Caroline Framke, Vox, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The Apprentice’ without the guy with the crappy orange hair.
    Annie Alleman, Lake County News-Sun, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The Fire had just lost 4-3 to a crappy Philadelphia side.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • What is great will always be weeded out over time, and what is crappy will fall by the wayside.
    New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • You’re handed a shirt, and some pants, and some crappy shoes, and a little towel roll with a toothbrush in it.
    Sarah Vitak, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That means no crappy old shells, or silhouettes that glare in the sunshine.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Like Bruce, June is ready to run away from her crappy Gilead family.
    refinery29.com, 27 June 2018
  • Like a lot of people I got obsessed with all the crappy things that are happening.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • The gist of the convo is this: Alexis can’t wait to get out of their crappy town, and David and Patrick didn’t invite her on their wedding venue hunt.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Trump’s complaint was that his wrestling match against Shifty Schiff and Cryin’ Chuck would be shown in a crappy television time slot.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Avoid any chance of crappy weather by playing the first homestand in the little ballpark in the desert.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • My old crappy metal desk wasn’t working very well, but the idea of standing for eight hours a day (or more) was too much to take on all at once.
    Eric Ravenscraft, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Your phone's app store is brimming with ways to turn your car—no matter how crappy—into cash.
    Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 19 Mar. 2020
  • My daily habits caused about 40 to 50 pounds of weight gain, a crappy mood, and stagnant energy.
    Women's Health, 6 June 2023

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