crummy

adjective

crum·​my ˈkrə-mē How to pronounce crummy (audio)
variants or less commonly crumby
crummier also crumbier; crumbiest
1
obsolete : crumbly
2
: very poor or inferior : lousy
crummy weather
has a crummy job
crumminess noun

Examples of crummy in a Sentence

the dry cleaners did a crummy job of pressing my suit
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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 But rarely does anyone reserve the same kind of generosity for a piece of crummy old software. Sheon Han, WIRED, 9 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for crummy 

Word History

Etymology

Middle English crumme

First Known Use

1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of crummy was in 1567

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“Crummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crummy. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

crummy

adjective
crum·​my ˈkrəm-ē How to pronounce crummy (audio)
crummier; crummiest
: very poor : lousy
crummy weather
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