What's the difference between crappy and nonsense?

Crappy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) The abandon of comedy is always there, though, the feeling of, “Fuck it, let’s try that TONIGHT!” because the audience’s expectations are different at a late-night comedy thing and they don’t mind crappy props and people reading scripts, and if it dies there’s always tomorrow.
  • (3) Without trying to sound arrogant, hopefully the awards will be an opportunity to talk to our contemporaries as peers, not just a crappy prison project, and say, 'This is what you can do'."
  • (4) Only these ones didn't have big pictures of Kate and Wills, but focused on things such as their own wages and crappy working conditions .
  • (5) "I decided I didn't want to have a crappy job like that," he says.
  • (6) It's been four long months since the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing thing, and just as we were forgetting just how crappy the internet connections are in Johannestoria, the Mandela story breaks.
  • (7) Suggesting that someone is doing a bad job while also implying that you would do a better job but also refusing to offer to do the job, or even to help, is a pretty crappy stance, and sounds a lot like someone who probably doesn’t have any friends.
  • (8) 8.30pm BST 30 min: Silva wins a free-kick, 30-odd yards from goal … 8.30pm BST 28 min: "How much do you think the high scoring tournament we've had so far has been down to not having a crappy new ball to get used to?"
  • (9) Lots of people invented crappy click-bait sites, and they’ve quickly dropped off the map.
  • (10) In The Wolf Of Wall Street, there's a shot of an honest FBI agent riding the subway home on his crappy government wage, while his day job is chasing down stone-hearted penny-stock cheats who make in a moment what he earns in a decade.
  • (11) One of Savile Row's bespoke tailors told the Times: "If the bespoke businesses were driven out by crappy retail stores selling poor-quality clothes, Savile Row's name would be irreparably damaged."
  • (12) Otherwise they have been characterised as overly sexualised, inherently stupid, hooked to crappy talent shows, computer games, screens, lacking in basic skills, lazy, rude and vain.
  • (13) But will she bother with crappy old England now she's destined for Hollywood?
  • (14) The Philly defenders were out in force, too: daveweigel (@daveweigel) Philadelphia > your crappy city.
  • (15) "She stayed in the same crappy places as the rest of us and mucked in and was fine about basically taking no money so what we had could go on the film.
  • (16) The journey goes something like this: Sit in cold, crappy station with overpriced food until slow train to Peterborough arrives.
  • (17) I don’t think any of them had worked in Poland, so they didn’t qualify.” It’s hardly worth it for the “crappy money” on offer, he said – but by registering they qualified for free healthcare.
  • (18) The visitors will obviously sniff at our crappy past, so we'd better make a show of it – "Ha-ha, these old things?
  • (19) If you have a crappy boss and she's a woman, the conclusion is "I had a crappy female boss, so female bosses are crappy."
  • (20) The problem isn't the fact that some female bosses suck, it's that if you have a crappy boss and he's a man, the conclusion is "I had a crappy boss".

Nonsense


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.
  • (n.) Trifles; things of no importance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
  • (3) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (4) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
  • (5) These data suggest that yeast tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase interacts with positions 34 and 35 of the anticodon of tRNATyr and opens the possibility that nonsense suppressor efficiency may be mediated by the level of aminoacylation.
  • (6) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
  • (7) Free recall of nonsense syllables was significantly better when these were learned under active compound.
  • (8) "It is clear this is a government which is short of ideas, desperately trying to bring up nonsensical diversions to distract attention from the situation in the country.
  • (9) Four regA mutants (regA1, regA8, regA11, and regA15) failed to make a protein having a molecular weight of about 12,000, whereas mutant regA9 did make such a protein; regA15 produced a new, apparently smaller protein that was presumably a nonsense fragment, whereas regA11 produced a new, apparently larger protein.
  • (10) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
  • (11) I’d have been a TV celeb type, done these albums that are nonsense – and yeah, with hindsight, that wouldn’t have been a bad idea.
  • (12) In addition, purified protein of 62,000 daltons, resulting from the suppression of the nonsense mutations tox-30 and tox-45, will react with antisera purified against the terminal 17,000 daltons of the toxin molecule and are immunologically identical to toxin by radial immunodiffusion.
  • (13) The other three carry nonsense mutations which inactivate both the excision repair and essential functions.
  • (14) La Manga in Spain is an example of human nonsense: 20km of city length, two kilometres wide, with huge buildings all along,” said Couet.
  • (15) In a sign of Labour's need to avoid tension with business, Darling was careful to stress he was not criticising the signatories but said: "I wonder if one of their finance directors came to them and said 'look, we have this wonderful idea, and we are going to pay with it by savings we have not yet identified and by calculations we cannot verify', they would say 'that is complete nonsense'."
  • (16) The mutation, which is not of the common CG-to-TG type, is at the same codon in which both nonsense and a different missense (Arg to Gln) have previously been observed.
  • (17) Introduction of an ochre nonsense codon into the reading frame of the leader peptide sequence leads to considerable reduction of the basal expression and loss of inducibility of the cat gene.
  • (18) On the Iraq war, he admitted he had voted in favour of military action in 2003 though he said he thought at the time that Blair's claims about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were "nonsense".
  • (19) Two nonsense mutations at codon positions 33 and 187 and an aberrant splice site were found in the human gene.
  • (20) The studies on the reverse mutation of osm3 indicated that this osmotic-sensitivity arises from a missense or nonsense mutation in OSM3 locus.