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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shitty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Paul's been in a shitty mood all morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Always got the shitty end of the stick, Gerry did.
▪ I head east from Anamosa, feeling too shitty to even pretend otherwise.
▪ Monica and her baby are living in one shitty room, with no place she can cook or anything.
▪ No wonder I felt so shitty.
▪ The show does look pretty shitty at the moment.
▪ Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love - selfish, shitty love into good love poetry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shitty

1924, from shit (n.) + -y (2). Earlier was shitten.

Wiktionary
shitty

a. 1 (context vulgar colloquial English) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. 2 (context US vulgar slang not comparable English) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high. 3 (context British Australia NZ vulgar slang English) Annoyed. 4 (context vulgar English) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).

WordNet
shitty

adj. very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, stinking, stinky]

Usage examples of "shitty".

Alvarado said during combat to turn the direction of the bullets shot at her son, how he had come in the tumult of the war with a red rag on his head shouting during the lull in fighting from the delirium of fever long live the liberal party, God damn it, long live victorious federalism, shitty Goths, even though really drawn along by the atavistic curiosity of knowing the sea, except that the misery-ridden crowd that had invaded the city with the corpse of his mother was more turbulent and frantic than any that had ravaged the country during the adventures of the federalist war, more voracious than that turmoil, more terrible than that panic, the most tremendous thing my eyes had seen in all the uncounted years of his power, the whole world general sit, look, what a wonder.

Vatican, suffer the little children to come unto me, and only when they left him half dead on the garbage heap in the public market did he get up out of the hammock waving the birds out of the way with his hands, appear in the hearing room waving away the cobwebs of mourning with the black armband and his eyes puffy from poor sleep, and then he gave orders for the nuncio to be placed on a life raft with provisions for three days and they cast him adrift on the lane that cruise ships took to Europe so that the whole world will know what happens to foreigners who lift their hands against the majesty of the nation, and the Pope will learn now and forever that he may be Pope in Rome with his ring on his finger sitting on his golden throne, but here I am what I am, God damn it, them and their shitty petticoats.

Then what did he think happened at Watts Club Mozambique this shitty afternoon at ten after two?

Besides all those shitty suppers where they give you a big plate of Hamburger Helper and a paper cup of orange JellO full of grated carrots?

The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere.

Standing near each mobile staircase were his own guys, Port Authority cops and EMS people, positioned to get on board and begin the shitty job of unloading the corpses.

I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet?

The whole world seemed asleep and quite indifferent to your conviction that medical education was shitty and irrelevant.

Here was the real me, feeling shitty and stumbling down a hall swearing under my breath, on my way to say, How are you, patient?

BOY WONDER comes around the back of that shitty little trailer and walks across the muddy yard, he looks so different it sends a quicksilver shiver up my spine.

Shreave would have gladly forgone the shitty four-dollar commission for a chance to close the deal, but no such responsibility was ever dealt to rookie callers.

Too far out of range for a shitty little undercutter like this with no legs.

He stole out with his shitty typescript, which skated over a variety of details like his brainwaves in the Deauville swimming-pool, the moment he realized what day it was.

Not that he would ever criticize Bradley Johansson, but for plans that had been a hundred years in the making, their time frame was starting to look pretty shitty.

She had had it with the emptiness of the quiet rooms, the conflicting thoughts about Pell and Dick Leyton and her shitty life.