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also crumby
as in poor
falling short of a standard
the dry cleaners did a crummy job of pressing my suit
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Recent Examples of crummy
Even Dani has a crummy night-to-day at the office, spectacularly misjudging the mark in her attempt to seduce Wallace and ultimately getting her ass kicked by Helen.
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Writers didn’t want to do punch-ups on potentially crummy AI scripts or have their words (or ideas) cannibalized by large language models that didn’t pay them a dime.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
To make its new version of Cleo a crusader, the series has to make the Black community around her incredibly susceptible to superstition and immorality, and that’s a crummy bargain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Then came a crummy offensive line, a nonexistent run game and some forced passes amid slow-developing plays.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Writers didn’t want to do punch-ups on potentially crummy AI scripts or have their words (or ideas) cannibalized by large language models that didn’t pay them a dime.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
To make its new version of Cleo a crusader, the series has to make the Black community around her incredibly susceptible to superstition and immorality, and that’s a crummy bargain.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Then came a crummy offensive line, a nonexistent run game and some forced passes amid slow-developing plays.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crummy
Adjective
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Consumer spending softened, increasing 1.8%, down from a 4% rise in the fourth quarter, but a decent performance in light of stock market turmoil and poor weather early in the quarter.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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These factors could contribute material risk to Nike’s earnings and put the company in a poor position to manage near-term headwinds.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
30 Apr. 2025
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President Donald Trump intends to completely reimagine U.S. trade relations with our closest partners and fiercest rivals, for better or worse.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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For too long, environmentalism was focused on stopping bad things, such as pollution.—
Anna Broughel,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Big, wonderful, funny, horrible, strange, sad, great life.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 May 2025
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One of our group hunted it on a rainy afternoon — traditionally a horrible time to bag a bird — and killed a 3-year-old tom. —A.M. Don’t Become Overly Reliant on Your Cameras Cameras aren’t magic.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
1 May 2025
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Public interest in the film intensified after a stroke of terrible happenstance.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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United have fallen massively and it’s been a terrible watch all season, bar a couple of highs.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Kelly Ripa was seeing red during a recent journey to Italy — but not because of the delectable pasta sauce typically associated with the region, but rather the dreadful performance of a soccer team the talk show icon and her husband, Mark Consuelos, co-own.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Ipswich Town, barely a goal kick from Felixstowe Beach and dreadful at the end of the season.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In countries such as Suriname, Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, and other countries, the CCP has dug its financial claws into these economies, funneling billions of dollars into substandard infrastructure projects.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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And then there’s the slight issue of CP’s paddle, which is widely known to be substandard in terms of today’s technology and is a big reason she’s fallen out of favor with ALW/is falling down the ranks in singles.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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This high school student completed a brutal swim across New Zealand's 13.67-mile Cook Strait 02:16 CNN — Maya Merhige eventually stopped counting her jellyfish stings, such was the frequency with which they were getting scorched against her skin.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
30 Apr. 2025
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Although understanding the difference between destructive and constructive feedback helps leaders communicate brutal truths without causing unnecessary harm, these examples highlight how easily criticism can become a personal attack.—
Topsie VandenBosch,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The reasons for consumers’ ongoing lousy mood have changed over the years: Obviously the pandemic caused sentiment to fall in 2020.—
Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Two elite closers looking anything but on Wednesday afternoon, pitching the same lousy 9th.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Crummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crummy. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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