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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
The acid in vinegar will help cut through soap scum on glass and acrylic doors, resulting in a sparkling shine.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
28 June 2026
Water marks form from hard water deposits and soap scum, which build up when water dries on glass.
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Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
27 June 2026
Want to take a dip but daunted by the scum and detritus on your pool's walls, floors, and surfaces?
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
25 June 2026
When water, soap, and body oils dry together, especially on glass or tile, soap scum can form easily.
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Gabi De La Rosa,
Southern Living,
21 June 2026
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
28 June 2026
Water marks form from hard water deposits and soap scum, which build up when water dries on glass.
—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
27 June 2026
Want to take a dip but daunted by the scum and detritus on your pool's walls, floors, and surfaces?
—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
25 June 2026
When water, soap, and body oils dry together, especially on glass or tile, soap scum can form easily.
—
Gabi De La Rosa,
Southern Living,
21 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scum
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As the tribunes, Bernardo De Paula’s Brutus and Daniel DeYoung’s Sicinius scheme and rabble-rouse with manipulative glee.
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Jongno's gay bars are concentrated on the more discreet second-floor levels overlooking Pocha Street, above the heterosexual rabble.
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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.
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After Game 4, jerks were throwing things at Victor Wembanyama.
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But the show repeatedly undercuts that point of view by halfway reinforcing the age-old American assumption that crime is born of poor individual choices among an uncivilized populace, not of poverty, desperation, and preservation, both self and communal.
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Walk our entire populace there and have the tools to be able to accomplish that.
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The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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Up until his first day of filming Jackass, Steve-O was a clown in nightclubs, cruise ships and at a flea-market circus.
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In the 1980s, the Friends of the LA River pushed to address street runoff and trash that had made the water body infamous.
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In the city of Miami, improperly disposing trash — like taking the trash from one of your homes and throwing it away in another of your property’s bins — can result in a $525 fine.
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What breaks my heart is that Vermax’s cries sounded like a dog crying, a dog dying.
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Roughly the size of a large dog and weighing more than 110 pounds (50 kilograms), the quadruped robot is designed to navigate industrial facilities that include staircases, narrow walkways, uneven surfaces, and confined spaces.
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All that loot pumped out of the Armenian proletariat, says the gaur, and for what.
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.
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Rabies is often found in bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes, but any mammal can be infected.
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Hence, bright lights and sprays of water will make skunks want to flee your yard.
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“Scum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scum. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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