Adjective

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(vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.

The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.

I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.

* 1988 November, Byron Coley, Underground'', '' , page 101,

It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.

* 2006 , , Nirvana: The True Story , 2009, unnumbered page,

The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.

* 2011 , Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires , page 134,

Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.

(US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.

(British, Australia, NZ, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.

Don't get shitty at me!

(vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).

Adjective

(er)

With little or no possessions or money.

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Of low quality.

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*, chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

To be pitied.

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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=15 citation , passage=Mr. Campion sighed. ‘Poor man,’ he said. ‘He sees his great sacrifices rejected by the gods, and so, no doubt, all the Misses Eumenides let loose again to plague him.’}}

Deficient in a specified way.

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Inadequate, insufficient.

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*(w) (1600-1666)

*:That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.

Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

*(Bible), (w) v.3

*:Blessed are the poor in spirit.