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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

/ ˈʌɪ /

adjective

  1. dirty or unpleasant
  2. of poor quality; contemptible
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cruddy1

First recorded in 1945–50; crud + -y 1
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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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Dear Carolyn: I’m 50, and after a pretty good run, have had three really cruddy years with one health crisis or traumatic event after another.

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