crummy
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The fever is not harmful, but it can make babies feel crummy as their body is building up antibodies against viruses and bacteria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Are we going to see some truly crummy soccer—like, Thursday Night Football Jets-Titans crummy?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
A crummy winter brought plenty of potholes and repairs.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
"Nothing at all apart from my little crummy car and my dog."
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
“When your daddy was a little boy, and he and I would go different places, people were usually nice to me but crummy to him,” she says.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
Then I heard the anguished bellow of a Himalayan cow—one of the little black crummies no bigger than Newfoundland dogs.
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling
“When you’re FaceTiming with her, would you rather see her deepfake digital avatar, or a crummier video call where she’s holding the phone camera up to her face at an unflattering angle?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The crummier your credit score, the more money in interest you'll pay throughout your life.
From US News ● Apr. 15, 2016
This was the Ducks team I picked to win the Pac-12 North, although the defense is much crummier than I imagined it could be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2015
The only question is what Hulu is going to do to make itself crummier.
From Slate ● May 30, 2012
I tried to convince myself that punks don’t feel guilty about giving mean people a taste of their own medicine, but by the time we got home, I felt even crummier about my joke.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
In many ways, she says, it’s “the crummiest job in the world,” replete with “blood, barf and bodily fluids,” and subservient to doctors.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
“It’s the smallest, crummiest wormhole you can imagine making,” he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
I’m debating whether to see it at the best non-IMAX theater I can think of or the crummiest shoebox theater I can find, as I imagine both formats would be educational.
From Forbes ● Nov. 17, 2014
The accolade for crummiest spin-off stays firmly with Simon Cowell's Food Glorious Food, because The Great British Sewing Bee is actually very good.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2013
These houses ranged from palaces filled with gold and velvet to the crummiest cribs where the stench would drive a pig away.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
