The phrase "crummy about" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to express a feeling of disappointment or dissatisfaction with a situation. Example: I feel really crummy about not being able to attend the wedding.
Then we can all go back about our business and stop feeling so crummy about everything.
I suspect that many young American adults who have to move in with their parents feel crummy about it.
"Why do I care that little girls end up feeling crummy about themselves and make less money than the boys?" Ms. Merlino says, annoyed.
I always felt sort of crummy about it, in part because I know better from a nutrition standpoint.
For if we keep condemning ourselves, we'll need to engage in even more self- or other-directed acts of violence so we can pretend we don't feel crummy about ourselves.
Either suppressing all the crummy tidings about the economy or the fate of their business or else tuning reality out altogether, they suddenly began drawing on core strengths, going deep into the aesthetic architectures of their labels and producing work that was loose and energized and very often sexy.
It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream.
These are dishes so easy and reliable that they practically cook themselves, allowing you the brain space to obsess over your crummy day, daydream about the perfect suede boots or chat on the phone, your dinner progressing all the while.
Perhaps the most striking chapter in the book describes how technology companies in America campaigned to foster a view that state schools were failing – in particular by funding a series of films about crummy schools and heroic individual teachers battling the system – before profiting from selling IT "solutions" to the new schools springing up to replace failed ones.
Nancy Lofholm, a 17-year veteran of the Denver Post who retired two years ago, said she was "not totally surprised to hear" about Crummy's advice to the oil and gas industry.
Lee Ann Colacioppo, now the Denver Post's editor, said she was not in her current position when Crummy raised concerns about a reporter's Facebook posting and that she could not discuss personnel matters.
