The word "crummy" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an informal adjective that means poor quality, shabby, or inferior. Example sentence: "The food at that restaurant was so crummy that I wasn't able to finish it."
Conditions were crummy: people performing at one end, people drinking at the other end, with the audience in between, struggling to concentrate.
The revisionist doc attempted to set the record straight about a period of film-making once dismissed at home as nothing more than crummy Hollywood knockoffs.
Things are looking crummy for sliced, wrapped bread.
When then-candidate John McCain told Iowans a simple fact ethanol is a crummy fuel the state's voters shunned him.But until yesterday, the ethanol lobby was rather grumpy.
Colombo is a "transhipment" hub for India: big ships unload containers there and feeder boats take these to India's often crummy ports.
The skeletons in the Kremlin's cupboards, if found, will be golden: Mr Borodin wrote in a newspaper article justifying building-work costing $179m that he had visited the Vatican and found it "a clean little place but crummy".Never before has Mr Yeltsin looked so weak.
In village after village, however crummy the shops and muddily rutted the single street, you see a smartly painted green building and an even more garish red-and-yellow one, where you can buy scratch cards to top up your mobile phone either with Safaricom (green) or Celtel (yellow and red), the country's two rival firms.They are potent symbols of the new Kenya.
Even a crummy social service may thrive if it obtains a critical mass.
It is a solution as impossible as any other.My poem is at least as crummy as Günter Grass's.
Brian Schwartz, a professor of physics at the City University of New York, says that in the 1970s as many as 5,000 physicists had to find jobs in other areas.In America the rise of PhD teachers' unions reflects the breakdown of an implicit contract between universities and PhD students: crummy pay now for a good academic job later.
That is the added value, just as the added value in switching from a crummy old refrigerator to a frost-free one is that you don't have to clean out the ice.
