cruddy

[kruhd-ee]

adjective

Slang.

cruddier, cruddiest 

1. covered, encrusted, or saturated with dirt, grease, or other objectionable substance; filthy.

   It gets the cruddiest work clothes clean.

2. worthless or useless; inferior in quality; lousy.

   a cruddy, broken-down car.

3. extremely disagreeable in character; nasty; contemptible; lowdown.

   Keep your cruddy remarks to yourself.

cruddy

/ ˈkrʌdɪ /

adjective

1. dirty or unpleasant

2. of poor quality; contemptible

Word History and Origins

Origin of cruddy¹

First recorded in 1945–50; crud + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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.

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It’s a home one otherwise supportive gallerist calls “pretty cruddy,” a home where, on one of its walls, Hammons painted what he called “Flight Fantasy.”

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The film is set on a cruddy, crime-ridden urban campus where a killer is on the loose.

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Their terms of art run from “really cruddy” to “rare as heck.”

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

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Related Words

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• crummy 
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• dusty 
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• greasy 
• grimy 
• messy 
• muddy 
• murky 
• nasty 
• polluted 
• sloppy 
• stained www.thesaurus.com
• unkempt