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Recent Examples of scum If not wiped up, the water can leave behind hard water stains or soap scum residue once dry. Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 May 2025 To prevent soap scum and spots from mineral buildup on your shower glass due to hard water, use a squeegee after each shower. Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 3 May 2025 Add a grate or screen to your sinks to trap hair and soap scum. Terry Baddoo, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025 Check the pot periodically and skim off any foam or scum that comes to the surface. Vicky Hallett, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scum
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scum
Noun
  • There was little-to-no doubt Jurgen Klopp’s side were going to defeat Ralf Rangnick’s under-interim-management rabble that day.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But in politics — as in life —there’s a fine line between being genuine and being a jerk.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Smoky, spicy jerk is also on the menu in the Pulled Jerk Pork & Coconut Shrimp appetizer at Eleanor’s at Sandals Grande Antigua.
    Sandals Resorts, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • This offers the populace some measure of accountability and contributes to the expectation that officers will perform their legal duties in keeping with their own departmental policies and within the boundaries of the law.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2025
  • Imagine arriving in Florence ready to guide and instruct the populace and instead being tussled over like a toy between two toddlers!
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Also, this was not a good week for billionaires as a socialist Muslim won a long-shot victory in the NYC Democratic primary, partly on the promise to raise taxes among the highest income earners, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starred in a clown show wedding in Venice.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
  • Ayanna Pressley, another blow-in-drifter (from Chicago), pole vaulted from the City Council clown show to the U.S. House.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Oremus and Papp looked at other common plastic trash—straws, water bottles and bottle caps—and found that, for these items, nothing changed.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 June 2025
  • From 2010 to 2015, the local government banned trash burning, so dumping in caves became common.
    Morgan Severson, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.
    cleveland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • As is the case with the aesthetics of people, exquisite lines can be found on patrician and proletariat cars alike.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Yet Mitchell Robinson, ever the joker, can’t make up his mind.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
  • Hayden Christensen as Jake Hill Conley Hayden Christensen played Jake Hill Conley, another neighborhood boy known for being a practical joker.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Scum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scum. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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