offscourings

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They are the victims of society; they do its dirty work, and are cast away as offscourings.

From The Child of the Dawn by Benson, Arthur Christopher

They live on offal and the offscourings of the city, and though the Turks freely throw all their refuse into their streets, there are so many dogs that they are all half-starved.

From Miscellanea by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

The thought of his childhood companions, the little waifs like himself who came from the offscourings of the earth.

From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston

They should therefore despise an army which seemed to be composed more of a mass of fickle offscourings than of a firm and stout soldiery.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus

The men were the offscourings of European armies engaged in the Napoleonic wars, and came directly from the old De Meurons' regiment.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)