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

  • (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

  • (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

  • 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

  • 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".

    CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2007 2007

  • "They tried to snowmachine in, but it's kind of cruddy right now,"

    Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News 2010

  • 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.

    Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA 2010

  • 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."

    Every Day Is Like Wednesday 2009

  • 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.

    Every Day Is Like Wednesday 2009

  • 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

  • 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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