crumminess

crum·my also crumb·y (kr

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adj. crum·mi·er also crumb·i·er, crum·mi·est also crumb·i·est Slang

1. Miserable or wretched: a crummy situation in the family.

2. Shabby or cheap: a crummy little rowboat.

[Probably from crumb.]

crummy¹

adj -mier, -miest Slang

1. of little value; inferior; contemptible

2. unwell or depressed to feel crummy

[variant spelling of crumby]

crummy²

n pl -mies

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) Canadian a lorry that carries loggers to work from their camp

[probably originally meaning: makeshift camp, from crummy¹]

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Adj.

crummy - of very poor quality; flimsy

cheesy, chintzy, punk, bum, sleazy, tinny, cheap

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

inferior - of low or inferior quality

crummy

adjective (Slang) second-rate, cheap, inferior, substandard, poor, pants (informal), miserable, rotten (informal), duff (Brit. informal), lousy (slang), shoddy, trashy, low-rent (informal, chiefly U.S.), for the birds (informal), third-rate, contemptible, shitty (taboo slang), two-bit (U.S. & Canad. slang), crappy (slang), rubbishy, poxy (slang), dime-a-dozen (informal), piss-poor (slang), chickenshit (U.S. slang), bush-league (Austral. & N.Z. informal), tinhorn (U.S. slang), of a sort or of sorts, strictly for the birds (informal) This is a lot better than some of the crummy places I've stayed in.

Translations

crummy [ˈkrʌmɪ] ADJ (crummier (compar) (crummiest (superl)))

1. (= bad) → miserable; [hotel] → de mala muerte
you can keep your crummy job → puede usted quedarse su empleo de pacotilla

2. (= unwell) → fatal
I'm feeling crummy → me siento fatal

crummy [ˈkrʌmi] adj

[place, job] → minable

(= unwell) to feel crummy [person] → se sentir patraque >

crummy

adj (+er) (inf) → mies (inf), → Scheiß- (sl)

crummy [ˈkrʌmɪ] adj (fam) (flat) → scadente; (idea) → stupido/a
a crummy town → un postaccio

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cheap
cheesy
chintzy
crumby
pathetic
poxy
punk
rotten
seedy
sleazy
terrible
tinny

Isn't it amazing that, while we suffer basic national shortcomings like the disintegration of our dwindling manufacturing industry, our inability to cope with a snow storm and crumminess of privatised rail services, that we now excel in spying on our own people?

Big Brother is getting too close for comfort by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

” There’s a crumminess at work here that, in its own way, is purifying.

If You Buy This Book, You've Been Snookered by Joshua David Stein / The New York Observer

Later, with violence taking place mostly within hotel and motel rooms and on deserted nocturnal streets, the urban squalor exudes the air of doom we know from film noir, but the usual romantic patches of darkness are missing: this isn't an amiable crumminess in which Philip Marlowe can relax with a few inches of bourbon and a cigarette but something from which Moss must escape as soon as possible.

The haunting: 'no country for old men' by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal

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