What's the difference between bad and crummy?

Bad


Definition:

  • (imp.) Bade.
  • (superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.
  • () of Bid

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
  • (2) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
  • (3) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (4) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
  • (5) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
  • (6) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
  • (7) Botswana, Kenya, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have also been badly hit.
  • (8) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
  • (9) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
  • (10) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (11) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (12) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
  • (13) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
  • (14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
  • (15) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
  • (16) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
  • (17) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
  • (18) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (19) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).
  • (20) This is bad constitutional reform, but it is a reform anyway.

Crummy


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of crumb or crumbs.
  • (a.) Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the end of the night, he told us we'd been such a crummy audience we didn't deserve an encore, and he didn't do one.
  • (2) Sayer is referring to the Watership Alan episode of I'm Alan Partridge when irate farmers drop a dead cow from a bridge on the hapless DJ while he's trying to film a crummy commercial for Hamilton's Water Breaks.
  • (3) I am also contributing to my £1,000 deposit (which I'll get back if I win 5% of the vote), donating to the Green mayoral campaign, and I need to upgrade my crummy phone if I am to get any better at social media.
  • (4) But hardware manufacturers often default to crummy security, or don’t offer a choice, and consumers often make themselves more vulnerable than they should.
  • (5) And the prize is gonna be really crummy every week.
  • (6) In these days of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, stale re-releases and crummy cover versions, an alternative rock scene can still feel proud and puffed up despite being tainted by its own decay.
  • (7) What a crummy world if we all retreat inside our own borders.
  • (8) To say ‘Oh I want you independently and I’m going to pay you no more than you would get as a regular wage employee,’ – that seems like a really crummy deal,” said John-Paul Ferguson, an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
  • (9) Dead high streets full of charity shops, crummy roads, an eerie emptiness where all the commerce should be … besides a few urban heat islands and the fact that bus infrastructure, miraculously, has survived, the transformation is complete.
  • (10) Jolson was out on the sidewalk and soon out in the hinterland picking up one-night fees in crummy night clubs 1,000 miles from the Broadway he had ruled.
  • (11) Salmon calls it "an inspirational place – I love Television Centre, but let's face it some of the accommodation we are in is pretty crummy.
  • (12) We can measure Romney's crumminess by examining his favorable ratings.
  • (13) US secretary of defense James Mattis has urged allies to “bear with us”, noting it would be a “crummy world” if Americans retreated into isolationism.
  • (14) As Tim Wu chronicles it in his remarkable book, The Master Switch , each of these industries started out as an open, irrationally exuberant, chaotic muddle of incompatible standards, crummy technology and chancers.

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