scummy
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“Bunny” This East Village indie by debut director Ben Jacobson is a scummy gem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
And there are bad, scummy, volatile meme stocks like Bed Bath & Beyond.
From Slate ● May 13, 2024
Listen, spin docs: Quit rebranding pols who’ve acted scummy!
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
Typically, microbial inks rely on a scaffold of polymers to stiffen their scummy forms.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
They came into town once a week, their skin scummy and stinking and blackened from oil and caked-on dirt, to get a bath and a shave at the barbershop.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
It was a macho thing: 'My contact is scummier than your contact.'
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2011
Then, Gillen sets them to scheming against each other in the scummiest corners of the Star Wars universe.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2019
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
