crappy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkɹæpi/ (US)

Definition of crappy

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar)Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
    “That is such a crappy car.”
    “The referee just made a really crappy call.”
    “The food there used to be good but now it's crappy.”
    “Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.”
    “She took a leap in 2019 and bought an investment property, a duplex in Missoula, Mont., intending to live in one unit and rent the other. “It was the crappiest house on the block,” she said.”
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adj

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar)Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
    “That is such a crappy car.”
    “The referee just made a really crappy call.”
    “The food there used to be good but now it's crappy.”
    “Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.”
    “She took a leap in 2019 and bought an investment property, a duplex in Missoula, Mont., intending to live in one unit and rent the other. “It was the crappiest house on the block,” she said.”
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial, especially, mildly, vulgar)Bad, sick, or depressed.
    “I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.”
  3. (Canada, US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar)Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
    “Put the crappy diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From crap + -y.

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