Synonyms
- bastard
- beast
- bleeder [British]
- blighter [chiefly British]
- boor
- bounder
- bugger
- buzzard
- cad
- chuff
- churl
- clown
- creep
- cretin
- crud [slang]
- crumb [slang]
- cur
- dirtbag [slang]
- dog
- fink
- heel
- hound
- jerk
- joker
- louse
- lout
- pill
- rat
- rat fink
- reptile
- rotter
- schmuck [slang]
- scum
- scuzzball [slang]
- skunk
- sleaze
- sleazebag [slang]
- sleazeball [slang]
- slime
- slimeball [slang]
- slob
- snake
- so-and-so
- sod [chiefly British]
- stinkard
- stinker
- swine
- toad
- varmint
- vermin
Examples of scumbag in a Sentence
don't romanticize that con artist, as she's nothing more than a scumbag who cheats the most vulnerable
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In these overwhelmingly heteronormative stories, creators explore the eternal question of why, exactly, (some) women are attracted to scumbags.
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Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
The idea that the President's kid is a scumbag is not surprising but this is another definition of political prosecution.
—Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
Williams’s play is responding to trends in the heat of its moment—urban decay, white flight, national opinion on the Vietnam War—and renders them broadly (as in some of the caricatures of city scumbags) but also with immediacy.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
The first Knives Out film cast Chris Evans as a scumbag at the height of his fame for playing the ultimate goody two-shoes superhero, Captain America.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 May 2024
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Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
The idea that the President's kid is a scumbag is not surprising but this is another definition of political prosecution.
—Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
Williams’s play is responding to trends in the heat of its moment—urban decay, white flight, national opinion on the Vietnam War—and renders them broadly (as in some of the caricatures of city scumbags) but also with immediacy.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
The first Knives Out film cast Chris Evans as a scumbag at the height of his fame for playing the ultimate goody two-shoes superhero, Captain America.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 May 2024
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“Scumbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scumbag. Accessed 13 Sep. 2024.
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