1
as in masses
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class
claimed that only scum lived in that part of town
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2
as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
ignore the heckler—he's complete scum
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Recent Examples of scum
America will live on without those scum on this earth.
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Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 28 May 2026
Post-Shower Maintenance To a similar effect, a microfiber cloth can become your shower's best defense against soap scum.
—Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 27 May 2026
While Embo didn’t have much screen time, he can be glimpsed among the scum and villainy in a handful of episodes including Season 2 Episode 17, Season 5 Episode 14 and Season 6 Episode 5.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2026
If any scum rises to the top, skim off and discard.
—Anita Jaisinghani, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2026
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Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 28 May 2026
Post-Shower Maintenance To a similar effect, a microfiber cloth can become your shower's best defense against soap scum.
—Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 27 May 2026
While Embo didn’t have much screen time, he can be glimpsed among the scum and villainy in a handful of episodes including Season 2 Episode 17, Season 5 Episode 14 and Season 6 Episode 5.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2026
If any scum rises to the top, skim off and discard.
—Anita Jaisinghani, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scum
Noun
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Jongno's gay bars are concentrated on the more discreet second-floor levels overlooking Pocha Street, above the heterosexual rabble.—
Anton Hur,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 June 2026
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Though Export’s radical feminist art grew out of a particular political moment that had pretty much passed by the time Yuskavage began her career, the artists nonetheless share a rabble-rousing sensibility and an obsession with the unnerving visual punch of the female body.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
23 May 2026
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This Jamaican restaurant, located just off Main Street, brings Caribbean flavors to Mackinac Island’s solid rotation of restaurants, with planked whitefish and jerk chicken sandwiches.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
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After Game 4, jerks were throwing things at Victor Wembanyama.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
13 June 2026
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Pressure from a populace desperate to launder Colombia’s image from headlines of cocaine and civil war.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2026
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Gentile da Foligno in Perugia Italy was one of the few regions in Latin Christendom where physicians organized into guilds in the fourteenth century and thus routinely treated the general populace, rather than merely the wealthier mercantile and aristocratic classes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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Hints at the canonical Big Daddies of existential clown float through the air — Beckett would recognize this pair, and so would Jean Genet.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 June 2026
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The comments section is filled with college football fans from all over the country calling the university's athletic department a bunch of clowns and hypocrites, but one Big 12 rival, the TCU Horned Frogs, put out a statement of their own in response to Tech's video.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
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To better understand how people interact with robots during play, researchers conducted an experiment in which participants played a physical version of trash-can basketball with Pepper.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
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Trucking food, water, equipment and fuel in — and trucking trash and sewage out of one of the most remote ecosystems in the eastern United States — Florida officials proposed to pay private contractors about $1 billion.—
Eve Samples,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
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The parasite has the cattle and dairy industry on edge, but in Mexico, screwworm has also been found in bears, pigs, goats, and even dogs and cats.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Marseille said the dog was always with her sister or nephew.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2026
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All that loot pumped out of the Armenian proletariat, says the gaur, and for what.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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Rabies is most common in wild animals including skunks, raccoons, bats and foxes.—
Laura Horne,
Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
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In the wild, skunks generally have a home range no larger than about 2 square miles.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2026
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“Scum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scum. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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