variants
or less commonly crumby
crummier also crumbier; crumbiest
crumminess
noun
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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.
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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
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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
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“Crummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crummy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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