The word 'crappy' is correct and usable in written English. It is often used to describe something or someone that is of poor quality or unsatisfactory in some way. Example sentence: That movie was pretty crappy.
This will be the decade of workers on wages so low they are priced out of the lifestyle they once thought was safely theirs; of tenants struggling with soaring rents and crappy landlords; of severely disabled people kept awake by the prospect of their benefits being cut, while others on jobseeker's allowance jump though hoop after hoop to avoid being sanctioned.
As today's Herald Sun reports, the government has now reached the most severe stage of political crisis: the "tabloid paper does crappy Photoshop" stage.
If you're planning to be a crappy boyfriend this summer, best to wait till Taylor's left the site.
Injury, when you can't run … and some days are just off – it's never fun if you've had a good run and then the next day you're just feeling crappy.
My lifestyle is quite crappy.
"It's a crappy old thing".
If people move to Texas—such critics murmur it's because they are happy with crappy.Americans don't move to crappy places, retorts Mr Perry.
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