Sentence examples for is crud from inspiring English sources
noun
Dirt, filth or refuse.
Make no mistake: the film is crud, but the higher kind of crud that leaves you feeling OK with yourself in the morning.
I don't really disagree with this statement; after all, Sturgeon's Law — 90 percent of everything is crud — definitely applies to economics, and when it comes to elaborate mathematical models you probably want to up the percentage.
While I understand his worry that the web's reputation is being tainted, he might be advised to remember the words of the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, who opined that "90% of everything is crud".
At the beginning your work will probably follow Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud), but people who do this for a living have to learn how to consistently produce a lot of humour.
And since the web is simply a more cost- and time-effective method of disseminating that information, 90% of the web is also bound to be crud, in terms of quality and veracity.
Aside: Musing earlier today on the transformation of Jonathan Walters from (what I thought was) an extremely limited player to an excellent Premier League performer who could play a prominent role for his country in Euro 2012 next summer, I and other twitter-based work-shirkers racked our puny brains to come up with players who've gone from seemingly being crud to crucial.
You see, it makes complete sense for paper editions to be axed because although no sod has a clue how to make money from digital journalism, and most of it is recycled crud from paper editions of tabloids, you can't get newsprint on your fingers or a paper cut from an iPad.
The bad news is, oh crud, it's coming out in May... ...
That frenchie was absolute crud".
A few months ago he told me: "Yesterday I thought I was a crud.
Crud (in most of his first West Ham season) to crucial (until this season) to crybaby?" Fair point about Al Habsi, he was only crud in the sense that he very seldom got a game; and there can be no denying that he was superb last season for Wigan and has been again this term, suggesting that Bolton really should have kept him, especially with Jussi Jasskelainen clearly on the wane.
