What's the difference between crappy and scrappy?

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".

Scrappy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
  • (2) We worked awfully hard for this Premier League status and we don’t want to give it up.” Gylfi Sigurdsson’s 61st-minute strike – his sixth goal in 10 games – settled a scrappy Liberty Stadium contest that failed to spark into life until the Iceland international finished from substitute Leroy Fer’s pass.
  • (3) The results may have looked scrappy and provisional but, coupled with initially affordable land prices, this laissez-faire planning strategy seems to have worked, even if much land has since been redeveloped.
  • (4) If American voters (or journalists) still expect their candidates to be – in the words of a popular musical – young, scrappy and hungry, they have not been paying attention.
  • (5) Norwich’s play was more scrappy than usual but they looked the more dangerous side on the occasions when they did manage to piece moves together.
  • (6) "It was sheer quality and class to win what was a scrappy game.
  • (7) Enough that the Nation have been slow to embrace a team of scrappy rough and tumble hard working bearded ballplayers that won 97 games and crushed opponents with their relentless offense.
  • (8) The Black Keys are not underdogs any more, but they maintain a scrappiness of ethos.
  • (9) The following day, outside his church office window, children played on swings in a scrappy playground as he prepared to host yesterday's funeral of Timothy Thomas.
  • (10) 8.29pm BST 42 min: The games got a bit scrappy in recent minutes and is being punctuated by a series of niggly fouls.
  • (11) Inverdale provoked outrage when he said that women's champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova so you have to be scrappy and fight?
  • (12) Scrappy, barely deserved, victories are hardly Wenger's hallmark but this one delivered an important message to Manchester City and company.
  • (13) 4.55am BST Spurs 95-95 Heat - 5:00 remaining OT Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @HunterFelt Hang on...I just had a scrappy midfield slog to write about.
  • (14) It's been a tight, fairly scrappy start from both sides.
  • (15) 2.04am GMT Final thoughts Was a scrappy affair, enlivened during that brief burst of second half goals.
  • (16) It's all getting a little scrappy again, which will suit Chile down to the ground.
  • (17) The X-Wings are, of course, the scrappy space fighters that the good guys destroy Death Stars in.
  • (18) 6.38pm BST 77 mins: The game has become a bit scrappy now, as tension and tiredness perhaps overcome the players a bit.
  • (19) A French ballistic missile launched from the left foot of Zinedine Zidane on the stroke of half-time proved enough to settle a final that mixed some scrappy, foul-ridden football with touches of the sublime and was rarely short of dramatic impact.
  • (20) O'Sullivan, who had won the afternoon session 5-3, took the first frame of the evening, a scrappy affair in which both players had a number of chances.