What's the difference between crummy and rummy?

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.

Rummy


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.
  • (n.) One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.
  • (a.) Strange; odd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At their second session, he and the doctor started playing gin rummy.
  • (2) Rummy – he’s your problem!” Donald Rumsfeld, then Ford’s 43-year-old chief of staff, was apparently operating under the delusion that Chicago could shortly become the world’s financial centre.
  • (3) Well, Rummy comes from Illinois,” Laird confided.
  • (4) Despite the apparent puritanism, the Saturday dances and gin rummy sessions in Mao's cave-house were a shock after the earnest conversation of American communists in the US.

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