Cruft

//kɹʌft//

Synonyms for "cruft" (3 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

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Translations

21 translations across 9 languages.

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Danish

1 entries
  • skrammel noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Finnish

1 entries
  • roska noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Galician

1 entries
  • quincalla noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

German

4 entries
  • Krempel noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • Müll noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • Ramsch noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • Schrott noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries
  • skrammel noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • skrap noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • skrot noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Polish

4 entries
  • barachło noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • chłam noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • rupieć noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • szajs noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • tranqueira noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Russian

4 entries
  • барахло́ noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • ру́хлядь noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • старьё noun (anything old or of inferior quality)
  • хлам noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Turkish

1 entries
  • fuzuli noun (anything old or of inferior quality)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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Students “still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want revealed,’ and that’s not the problem. Their problem is all the stuff that’s the cruft, the data dandruff, of life, that they don’t think of as secret in any way, but which aggregates to stuff that they don't want anybody to know,” Moglen said.

Source: wiktionary

The document just goes on at length in the same way, picking out the sort of cruft that’s been littering Trump’s Twitter feed since Nov. 3 and tying it all into one stinky package. It’s sincerely not worth running through the entire litany again; simply consider The Post’s Fact Checker articles as an effective rejoinder.

Source: wiktionary

The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has been added over time.

Source: wiktionary

Best developer practices run the gamut from keeping the cruft out of your code to ensuring your code is accessible to all your application or site’s users.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.