Sentence examples for crapola from inspiring English sources

"crapola" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a slang term to describe something unpleasant or undesirable. You can use it to express disdain or disappointment. Example sentence: "I was so mad that I got a flat tire - what crapola!"

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crapola

noun

Items or material of poor quality or little importance.

  • My junk drawer is full of all sorts of crapola.

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Shoot up some bipartisan multi-racial nostalgic all-American crapola, and take this issue off the table.Then again, Mr Romney's all-white campaign ad could be a demographically realistic reflection of his voter base.

Pulling his spectacles down from their perch atop his bald pate, Wattenberg, the owlish optimist, countered, "To be sure, there is a lot of crapola out there.

Even Leonid Brezhnev, who presided over the Party and the country from 1964 to 1982, began privately calling Leninist ideology tryakhomudiya — a term of derision that might best be translated as "crapola".

Mantel has a great eye for the dross and dreck of urban and suburban life – the "crapola", as Philip Roth calls it – and it's a joy to follow her around as she observes it.

They satisfy appetites for physical quality and moral substance which have, by and large, been ignored in the exploitative lightweight crapola served up by, shall we say, the Turner prize.

Wouldn't it be heaven if all primary-school children were given delicious free dinners, ate them at tables, rubbish packed lunches were banned and no school children were allowed out to get over excited and buy crapola fast food at lunchtime?

These comments -- or obvious searchable flags -- are replaced later with the appropriate citations or with more carefully honed thoughts that reduce what might have been five jargon-filled paragraphs of muddled "crapola" in the passive voice to either a few incisive sentences or six jargon-filled paragraphs in the passive voice.

Guston was painting crapola.

When Hurricane Gloria hit, the people of Long Island said, 'Holy crapola!

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Partly it was based, Mr. Roth has written, on "a shared delight in what Guston called 'crapola,' starting with billboards, garages, diners, burger joints, junk shops, auto body shops" and including "the Uriah Heepisms of our perspiring president".

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