Meaning & use
crumby
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Covered with or full of crumbs; also an informal spelling variant of "crummy," meaning shabby or of poor quality.
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He brushed the crumby tablecloth clean after breakfast.
It was a crumby little motel with a flickering neon sign.
A note on using this word
The two senses are easy to confuse: one relates literally to crumbs, the other is a casual misspelling of "crummy" meaning inferior.
Words with a similar meaning
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Another way to use it
2. adjective
Shabby, inferior, or disappointing (informal, a variant spelling of "crummy").
The whole trip turned out to be a crumby experience from start to finish.
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