shitty
Americanadjective
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inferior or contemptible.
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inept or insignificant.
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unfortunate or unpleasant.
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wretchedly bad; miserable.
Other Word Forms
- shittiness noun
Etymology
Origin of shitty
Example Sentences
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The year he and Tara had married, they’d pooled money from their shitty office jobs and rented a lakeside cabin on Rose Island, at the tip of Wisconsin’s sharp-nailed thumb.
From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022
“The key ingredient is adding people you’re happy to look shitty in front of.”
From The Verge • Jul. 20, 2022
It’s pretty hard to delete someone’s desire, and it’s borderline shitty to try to do that to desire you helped cultivate.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2019
In “Hereditary,” it’s a literal perpetuation of patriarchy; in “Midsommar,” it’s the fecklessness of a shitty boyfriend.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2019
I remember doing a mandatory chorus performance back in third grade and coughing right in the middle of our shitty rendition of “This Little Light of Mine.”
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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