cruddy
Example Sentences
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Having once dismissed the vice presidency as “a cruddy job,” Cheney, who served under Bush for two terms beginning in 2001, set out to make it count.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
Scanning the water, I could make out a few objects littered on the bottom: old boat husks, a rusted shopping cart, a bicycle, and some cruddy 5-gallon buckets.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2024
It seems another superhero is putting the big hurt on bad guys in cruddy gray old Gotham.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Dear Carolyn: I’m 50, and after a pretty good run, have had three really cruddy years with one health crisis or traumatic event after another.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2022
Even on the long, cruddy bus ride home.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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