slang
: a dirty or despicable person
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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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And Corey’s a scumbag low life, by the way, who’s a thief.
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And all of the more than 150 females who testified against one of the biggest scumbags in the history of American sports, Dr. Larry Nassar, trusted their mom and dad.
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Can’t wait for the files to come out about your scumbag hero.
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People's ideal politicians aren't honest scumbags who make no bones about their craven scumbaggery.
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The mother of a Baltimore activist, who agrees that some of the protests went too far, still takes issue with Barkley’s use of the word scumbags to refer to the protesters in Ferguson the year before.
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Many people were understandably angry about the TV Academy’s decision to include a scumbag like Ailes alongside such genuine luminaries as Mary Tyler Moore, June Foray, and Debbie Reynolds.
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Lieberman is the scummiest scumbag who ever scummed.
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The plot might be unbelievable, but watching that scumbag Paolo get embarrassed in front of the entire country is still beyond satisfying.
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1957
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