scumbag
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“Said she’d never pegged me for a scumbag before,” he sings, “She said she didn’t ever want to see me anymore / And I still don’t know why.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
"I'm not a scumbag, I'm not an idiot. I've always been a worker," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
It does not make the neighbor a scumbag; it was obviously an accident.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2023
The governor on Sunday was booed at a prayer vigil for the shooting victims, where he told the crowd the gunman was "a major-league scumbag."
From Reuters ● Aug. 28, 2023
At least he didn't call him a scumbag.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023
Rob Davies placed notices in his Run Ragged vintage shop in Wrexham, informing customers "due to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
“Glass Onion” continues to give America’s entitled scumbags their due, though this time the focus isn’t on a family but rather an inner circle of self-styled disruptors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Offended: My overall point was that even scumbags have innocent mothers and other family members who deserve comfort and showing compassion toward him would comfort them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
The deaths of intelligent, rational people on this show—your Tywins, your Qyburns, your Varyses—create a special pain: even if they’re scumbags, you’ll miss their competence.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Hipsters, sad-faced hobos, con-men, muggers, scumbags and angels.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
