Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worthless, loathsome, or disgusting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
curdy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective slang Full of
crud - adjective slang
crummy ,lousy - adjective slang
worthless - adjective slang
annoying ,irritating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by obscenity
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Examples
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(When you’re looking at these prices below, add a one or two or three hundred thousand to get prices for comparable homes in cruddy nearby neighborhoods that didn’t have a nationally notorious brand name.)
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Real Homes of Genius 2008
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(When you’re looking at these prices below, add a one or two or three hundred thousand to get prices for comparable homes in cruddy nearby neighborhoods that didn’t have a nationally notorious brand name.)
Real Homes of Genius 2008
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I think my co-pays and deductibles were just over $1500 for the whole episode, thank goodness, but had I been uninsured or had some kind of cruddy discount plan, I shudder to think how my finances might be.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Insurance 2009
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In a new biography, one of the world's most powerful men talks about mistakes made in Iraq and why he once called the vice presidential job "cruddy".
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"They tried to snowmachine in, but it's kind of cruddy right now,"
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It's kind of cruddy and in a constant state of flux, yet it's a nice place to chill out and have a nice cup of authentic Moroccan mint tea.
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I'd encourage you to go read Spurgeon's paragraph about the book in its full context, but he rightly noted that it would have been nicer "if a company that has concentrated on story the last decade or so to astounding benefit made a solid comic out of the event rather than a kind of cruddy-looking, cynical one."
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Having read those five pages now, "gross" seems like a pretty good way to sum the whole thing up, and I won't argue with "kind of cruddy-looing" or "cynical" either.
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I’d encourage you to go read Spurgeon’s paragraph about the book in its full context, but he rightly noted that while it was nice that the company wanted to do a story, it would have been nicer “if a company that has concentrated on story the last decade or so to astounding benefit made a solid comic out of the event rather than a kind of cruddy-looking, cynical one.”
Two industry leaders. Two big releases. Two thunderous disappointments. 2009
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Having read those five pages now, “gross” seems like a pretty good way to sum the whole thing up, and I won’t argue with “kind of cruddy-looing” or “cynical” either.
Two industry leaders. Two big releases. Two thunderous disappointments. 2009
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