scummy

“If you want to know how scummy the Razzie awards are, look no further than them nominating a 12-year-old for worst actress,” said another Twitter user.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Those with their credibility in question include “the 17-year-old at issue in the investigation” and Gaetz’s scummy ex-friend who’s cooperating with the feds.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022

Listen, spin docs: Quit rebranding pols who’ve acted scummy!

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022

NVHAP, a risk for virtually all hospital patients, is often caused by bacteria from the mouth that gathers in the scummy biofilm on unbrushed teeth and is aspirated into the lungs.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022

And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

It was a macho thing: 'My contact is scummier than your contact.'

From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2011

It would be cool if people could refrain from being their absolute scummiest, occasionally.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2022

In San Francisco, “you could be the scummiest person, you could be a doctor. You can be whatever you want to be. This city gives you all the skills to do it.”

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2017

Dish towels are some of the scummiest things in your kitchen.

From Time ● Jul. 14, 2017

Stocky paparazzi, wearing the same cargo-shorts-black-logo-tee uniform they wear on the scummiest corners of Hollywood Boulevard, lug their gear down the sidewalk in search of that perfect shot to sell to an Italian tabloid.

From The Verge ● May 15, 2015

Since then, as often as he has time, he goes to bathe in the scummiest parts, and then comes and tells me all about it with any amount of circumstantial evidence.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman