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Definition of crummy in English: crummy(also crumby) adjectivecrummiest, crummier, crumbier, crumbiest ˈkrʌmiˈkrəmi informal 1Dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality. 肮脏的;令人不快的;质量低劣的 肮脏的房间。 Example sentencesExamples - This is the way video art should be viewed - in the comfort of your own home, without the discomfort of the gallery and the need to wear crummy headphones while perched on a bean bag.
- I've read everything this man has written, with delight: he can't stand crummy design, poor execution, or indifference to the end-user.
- I used to live in apartments like that too - but at least they were in the city, close to other things like… well, friends in equally crummy apartments.
- I'm having a crummy week so far and it's only Tuesday.
- All I can do in the time available is to offer instruction on the first and most important element of crummy writing, which is (as my title suggests) bad plotting.
- Do you do poor work because you have a crummy job, or do you have a crummy job because you do poor work?
- Trust me, all of this is lousy, crummy, rotten behavior on your husband's part.
- After some hassles with getting food and crummy weather, I finally get there.
- In this age of rotten service, crummy products and seething attitudes, you have accidentally stumbled onto a solution to those woes.
- They weren't successful, they toured in an old crummy van for 22 years.
- It really wasn't a bad week, but I have to conclude that it's a crummy Friday night.
- When a band offers to take an off-night at a venue, or open for a crummy band, and can still deliver on a guarantee, they inevitably build momentum.
- We've got a good band… and I don't want to be out there just being crummy and a shadow of what we were.
- ‘Beth hasn't been over there long enough other than to say that the food is crummy,’ he says.
- Heck, he could probably flog you a crummy endowment mortgage and a rubbish personal pension plan.
- Critics have said the film is all style and substance, but for awhile the wild colours and lavish sets assault you so much that you don't notice the crummy dialogue and absence of plot.
- I began going to the local council gym, but I found it unpleasant and crummy so I gave that up too.
- But for tonight, it's a long-overdue bedtime (as I didn't sleep well at all last night), and a putting of a generally crummy day behind me.
- He writes and that's all he does, occasionally taking a crummy job to keep things going.
- After reviewing his notes in his crummy little room, The Bank Robber comes up with a Plan.
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty inferior, substandard, below standard, below par, poor, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, mediocre, inadequate, insufficient - 1.1 Unwell.
身体不适的 I've been feeling pretty crummy the last few days Example sentencesExamples - When teens are depressed, anxious, insecure, angry, frustrated or just plain feeling crummy inside, they often act out as a way of expressing negative feelings.
- When asked what he thought was making him feel crummy, the young doctor drew a blank.
- Clearing the air beats sitting home and feeling crummy.
- Then I began to feel really crummy which we found out a few days later was pneumonia.
Synonyms unwell, ill, poorly, bad, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out
nounˈkrʌmiˈkrəmi North American informal A truck used to transport loggers to and from work. 〈北美〉(运送伐木工人上下班的)旧卡车;改装卡车 Example sentencesExamples - Sure, this comes at the cost of some additional potential wear and tear on the caboose, but crummies are tough and the learning experience seems worth the price.
- The inside of cabooses reflected the conductor's personal habits and the degree of cleanliness varied with some men being noted for spotless vans while others were much less so giving rise to the age old term for vans as ‘crummies’.
Derivativesadverb informal Viva and I decided to go to some crummily cheap airport hotel just so we could relax for a moment. Example sentencesExamples - I love paperbacks because I'm very good to my books and I've only had a couple of crummily made ones fall apart, which I can usually fix by repairing the spine with rubber glue.
- It was a cattle ranch and usually I'm holed-up in a crummily adequate motel room when I visit that part of the country.
- So if you see someone being treated crummily, stick up for them.
noun informal Saturday was kinda crummy, but not really awful, just general level crumminess. Example sentencesExamples - I was pretty numb when dad died, but the sheer crumminess of it all sort of dawns on you slowly.
OriginMid 19th century (earlier in the literal senses 'crumbly' and 'like or covered with crumbs'): variant of crumby. RhymesBrummie, chummy, crumby, dummy, gummy, lumme, mummy, plummy, rummy, scrummy, scummy, slummy, tummy, yummy Definition of crummy in US English: crummy(also crumby) adjectiveˈkrəmēˈkrəmi informal 1Dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality. 肮脏的;令人不快的;质量低劣的 肮脏的房间。 Example sentencesExamples - Critics have said the film is all style and substance, but for awhile the wild colours and lavish sets assault you so much that you don't notice the crummy dialogue and absence of plot.
- After reviewing his notes in his crummy little room, The Bank Robber comes up with a Plan.
- I used to live in apartments like that too - but at least they were in the city, close to other things like… well, friends in equally crummy apartments.
- In this age of rotten service, crummy products and seething attitudes, you have accidentally stumbled onto a solution to those woes.
- ‘Beth hasn't been over there long enough other than to say that the food is crummy,’ he says.
- I began going to the local council gym, but I found it unpleasant and crummy so I gave that up too.
- But for tonight, it's a long-overdue bedtime (as I didn't sleep well at all last night), and a putting of a generally crummy day behind me.
- This is the way video art should be viewed - in the comfort of your own home, without the discomfort of the gallery and the need to wear crummy headphones while perched on a bean bag.
- I've read everything this man has written, with delight: he can't stand crummy design, poor execution, or indifference to the end-user.
- Trust me, all of this is lousy, crummy, rotten behavior on your husband's part.
- He writes and that's all he does, occasionally taking a crummy job to keep things going.
- It really wasn't a bad week, but I have to conclude that it's a crummy Friday night.
- They weren't successful, they toured in an old crummy van for 22 years.
- After some hassles with getting food and crummy weather, I finally get there.
- All I can do in the time available is to offer instruction on the first and most important element of crummy writing, which is (as my title suggests) bad plotting.
- Heck, he could probably flog you a crummy endowment mortgage and a rubbish personal pension plan.
- When a band offers to take an off-night at a venue, or open for a crummy band, and can still deliver on a guarantee, they inevitably build momentum.
- Do you do poor work because you have a crummy job, or do you have a crummy job because you do poor work?
- I'm having a crummy week so far and it's only Tuesday.
- We've got a good band… and I don't want to be out there just being crummy and a shadow of what we were.
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty inferior, substandard, below standard, below par, poor, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, mediocre, inadequate, insufficient - 1.1 Unwell; ill.
身体不适的 I'm feeling crummy and want to get better 我身体不舒服,希望能好起来。 Example sentencesExamples - When teens are depressed, anxious, insecure, angry, frustrated or just plain feeling crummy inside, they often act out as a way of expressing negative feelings.
- When asked what he thought was making him feel crummy, the young doctor drew a blank.
- Clearing the air beats sitting home and feeling crummy.
- Then I began to feel really crummy which we found out a few days later was pneumonia.
Synonyms unwell, ill, poorly, bad, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out
nounˈkrəmēˈkrəmi North American informal 1An old or converted truck used to transport loggers to and from work. 〈北美〉(运送伐木工人上下班的)旧卡车;改装卡车 Example sentencesExamples - Sure, this comes at the cost of some additional potential wear and tear on the caboose, but crummies are tough and the learning experience seems worth the price.
- The inside of cabooses reflected the conductor's personal habits and the degree of cleanliness varied with some men being noted for spotless vans while others were much less so giving rise to the age old term for vans as ‘crummies’.
- 1.1
another term for caboose (sense 1)
OriginMid 19th century (earlier in the literal senses ‘crumbly’ and ‘like or covered with crumbs’): variant of crumby. |