scum

Main Entry:
spume [spyoom]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: froth
Synonyms: foam, scum, spray, suds
Main Entry: wretch
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: derelict
Synonyms: beggar, bezonian, blackguard, brute, bum, caitiff, cullion, dog, ingrate, knave, liar, libertine, looser, lowlife, miscreant, outcast, pariah, pauper, pilgarlic, poltroon, rake, rapscallion, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rogue, ronion, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scullion, scum, snake, vagabond, varlet, villain, worm
Notes: retch is to vomit or gag; wretch is a noun for a pitiable person
Main Entry: crud
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: filth
Synonyms: dirt, dregs, grime, muck, scum, skank, slime, smut, waste
Main Entry: uncleanness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impurity
Synonyms: adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foreign matter, foulness, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, unwholesomeness
Main Entry: unwholesomeness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impurity
Synonyms: adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foreign matter, foulness, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, uncleanness
Related Words
Main Entry: foam
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
afoam, bubbling, effervescent, frothy, nappy, sparkling, spumescent, spumous, vaporous
Main Entry: impurity
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
adulterous, anacreontic, bawdy, bestial, broad, carnal, carnal, concupiscent, cyprian, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, equivocal, erotic, fornicatory, frail, free, fulsome, gallant, gay, gross, immodest, impure, incestuous, incontinent, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, licentious, lickerish, lididinous, light, loose, lupanarian, lustful, meretricious, nerotic, no better than she should be, not to be mentioned to ears polite, obscene, of easy virtue, of loose character, on the loose, on the streets, on the town, paphian, pornerastic, pornographic, profligate, prurient, rakish, rampant, randy, ribald, riggish, ruttish, salacious, scortatory, sensual, sexotropic, shameless, smutty, subagitatory, supinovalent, unchaste, unclean, voluptuous, wanton
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Impurity.
Category: 4. Moral practice
Synonyms:
-nouns
impurity; uncleanness, filth; immodesty; grossness; indelicacy, indecency; impudicity; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque., concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism., incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation., seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest., social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, criminal conversation; free love., seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel.
-verbs
be impure; intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery.
-adjectives
impure; unclean (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risqué, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic., concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty., unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose., adulterous, incestuous, bestial.
Antonyms: purity
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Concept: Uncleanness.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience
Synonyms:
-nouns
uncleanness; impurity; immundity, immundicity; impurity [of mind] [more]., defilement, contamination; defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo., slovenry; slovenliness, squalor., dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dustman, sweep; beast., dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle., sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders; recrement, slag; scum, froth., hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar., riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch., mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U. S.]., spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery; garbage, carrion; exereta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost., dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole., sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.
-verbs
be unclean, become unclean; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad., render unclean; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease; dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear, bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt (injure); cover with dust; drabble in the mud; roil., wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.
-adjectives
unclean, dirty, filthy, grimy; soiled; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.]., uncleanly, slovenly, untidy, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed, unkempt, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified; grody to the max; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly., nasty, coarse, foul, impure, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid., moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese., crapulous (intemperate); gross (impure in mind); fimetarious, fimicolous.
-phrases
"they that touch pitch will be defiled" [Much Ado About Nothing].
Antonyms: cleanness
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