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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And then I realize that I am hunched on this cruddy toilet under my hoodie and they are right, they are right, they are right.
From Literature
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.
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.”
From New York Times
Their terms of art run from “really cruddy” to “rare as heck.”
From New York Times
It seems another superhero is putting the big hurt on bad guys in cruddy gray old Gotham.
From Seattle Times
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