adjective
adjective
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full of or littered with crumbs
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soft, like the inside of bread
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a variant spelling of crummy 1
Etymology
Origin of crumby
Example Sentences
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Serve this with a big green salad to round out your wonderful, crumby meal.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
The always-watchable Slate delivers moments of crumby charm, as when she wakes next to a ravaged box of cereal and nails the delivery: “You again?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
I try again the next week, only for the resulting loaf to somehow be simultaneously stodgy and crumby.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2020
But it was crumby and lousy and I'm left years later thinking an otherwise idyllic childhood was shadowed and scarred somehow by crappy encounters with crappy boys.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2017
He was almost standing on top of me, his crumby old hairy stomach and all.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
And the better the person, the crumbier the house is going to look.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2020
I knew this one girl, a couple of years ago, that was even crumbier than I was.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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