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crummy adjective [ ˈkrʌmi ]

• dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality.
• "a crummy little room"
Similar: inferior, substandard, below standard, below par, poor, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, mediocre, inadequate, insufficient, appalling, abject, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, unsatisfactory, low-grade, second-rate, third-rate, jerry-built, shoddy, crude, tinny, trashy, miserable, wretched, lamentable, deplorable, pitiful, execrable, unpleasant, disagreeable, uncomfortable, nasty, horrible, dismal, hateful, frightful, unacceptable, dire, bum, diabolical, rotten, sad, tatty, tenth-rate, ropy, duff, rubbish, rubbishy, pants, a load of pants, grotty, weak sauce, direful, egregious, crap, crappy,

crummy noun

• a truck used to transport loggers to and from work.
Origin: mid 19th century (earlier in the literal senses ‘crumbly’ and ‘like or covered with crumbs’): variant of crumby.


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