crappy
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Half a lifetime ago, I had a crappy copyediting job that meant I had to drive for 90 minutes through traffic across the sprawling concrete wasteland of Phoenix.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
I love hearing about successful people’s crappy first jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Those avocado green appliances, Formica countertops, and linoleum floors were just as crappy as they appear in those sitcom reruns.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
While she has often chosen not to address “outrageous lies, crappy stories and unflattering characterizations,” Hannah wrote her “silence should not be mistaken for agreement with lies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
“Okay, you win. Instead of planting some other kind of tree, we’ll let the forest take back the land. All the crappy scrub and underbrush you want.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
Add cooked green peppers to anything, and you have a new, crappier dish.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021
“The truth is, recycling still is too expensive and gives crappier products,” says Banholzer, now at UW.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 1, 2021
It’s an empirical fact: San Francisco is a crappier place to live these days.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2018
Did the worst five people in America do all five movements with perfect feeling and open a portal to an even crappier dimension than the one we’re already living in?
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2017
The loans that were being made to actual human beings only grew crappier, but, bizarrely, the price of insuring them—the price of buying credit default swaps—fell.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
“Bless her soul, she read some of the crappiest things ever,” Raiff said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
“There have been so many people that have supported us through the crappiest year ever,” Almirola said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021
Sorry, but I really cannot endorse this, the crappiest possible reboot of My Side of the Mountain.
From Slate ● May 26, 2021
It's a really interesting study of human nature and how we thrive, even in the crappiest of circumstances.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2019
Insurance on the crappiest triple-B tranche of a subprime mortgage bond now cost less than 2 percent a year.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
