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don't romanticize that con artist, as she's nothing more than a scumbag who cheats the most vulnerable
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Soul Quest Overdrive takes a page out of Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s book and follows four anthropomorphic pieces of sports gear that are absolute scumbags.
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Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Ninety-nine percent of politicians are scumbags.
—Tony Dokoupil, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
This is a scumbag move and incentivizes me to dump them.
—Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
The sequel to 2021's Furioza brings us back into the dark and unsettling Polish underworld, as a young scumbag gets stuck under the thumb of the police and has to infiltrate a notorious prison as an informant.
—PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
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Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Ninety-nine percent of politicians are scumbags.
—Tony Dokoupil, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
This is a scumbag move and incentivizes me to dump them.
—Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
The sequel to 2021's Furioza brings us back into the dark and unsettling Polish underworld, as a young scumbag gets stuck under the thumb of the police and has to infiltrate a notorious prison as an informant.
—PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Scumbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scumbag. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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