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cruddy

[kruhd-ee] / ˈkrʌd i /












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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

I am a 25-year-old living with my parents working two cruddy, low-paying retail jobs.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2023

It seems another superhero is putting the big hurt on bad guys in cruddy gray old Gotham.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Also: “Some filmmakers feel that they’ve got to find something cruddy and ugly in an artist’s life,” Warwick said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

He bounces his foot up and down on our cruddy porch boards.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor