don't romanticize that con artist, as she's nothing more than a scumbag who cheats the most vulnerable
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Josh Safdie cannot resist an unrepentant scumbag protagonist.—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Oct. 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 Since then, he's played killers, cops, aliens, scumbags, and mean dads in films like Cop Land (1997), The Faculty (1998), and Walk the Line (2005), as well as series such as The X-Files (2000–2002), 1923 (2022–2025), and Peacemaker (2022–present).—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025 Once the province of bikers and sailors and scumbags, tattoos now appear on nearly one-third of all Americans.—John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scumbag
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