cruddy
Americanadjective
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covered, encrusted, or saturated with dirt, grease, or other objectionable substance; filthy.
It gets the cruddiest work clothes clean.
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worthless or useless; inferior in quality; lousy.
a cruddy, broken-down car.
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extremely disagreeable in character; nasty; contemptible; lowdown.
Keep your cruddy remarks to yourself.
adjective
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dirty or unpleasant
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of poor quality; contemptible
Etymology
Origin of 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
Appreciate the intentionally cruddy camerawork by Maceo Bishop that duplicates Hyams’ low-budget limitations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
It seems another superhero is putting the big hurt on bad guys in cruddy gray old Gotham.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
If you’re concerned about NFTs’ side effects—a potentially speculation-driven bubble, value instability, the possibility of money laundering, encouraging cruddy art, profiting off another person’s likeness—this development bodes poorly.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2021
Even on the long, cruddy bus ride home.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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