cruddy
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
Scanning the water, I could make out a few objects littered on the bottom: old boat husks, a rusted shopping cart, a bicycle, and some cruddy 5-gallon buckets.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2024
It seems another superhero is putting the big hurt on bad guys in cruddy gray old Gotham.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Also: “Some filmmakers feel that they’ve got to find something cruddy and ugly in an artist’s life,” Warwick said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
It looks so flat, a cheap, cruddy drawing.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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