Michaela Watkins

When my parents were divorced in the late '70s, early '80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as much as possible - get the worst lawyer in the world, all that. That's not what people are out to do anymore. It feels cruddy to try and destroy each other just because you're breaking up.

American Actress

Cindy Crawford

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

American Model

Lee Unkrich

I think the moment you try to make something for kids, you are making something really cruddy that even kids don't want to watch most of the time.

American Director

Andrew Yang

Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.

American Public Servant

Implies frustration or disappointment with the quality or condition.

Negative Connotation

Common in casual conversation, but not suitable for formal contexts.

Informal Speech

Often used to highlight the old or worn-out nature of an object.

Emphasis on Age

Conveys a strong sense of disgust or disapproval, more emotional than 'bad'.

Emotional Disgust

Often evokes a vivid picture of the undesirable characteristic mentioned.

Visual Imagery

Can describe taste or smell that is unpleasantly strong or offensive.

Sensory Description

 after 10 hours -- were playing in our office. And we took some pretty cruddy home movies. At the end of the one I'm going to show, it's only about a minute and a couple of seconds long,

Dean Kamen: The emotion...

 then film pretty cruddy and tired have been down on the week the passenger gallstones gallstones are pretty excruciating pain wise and when the

Cruddy

Negative Connotation

Informal Speech

Emphasis on Age

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