riffraff

He has some friends — acquaintances, really — whom he hates, mentally labeling them “the riffraff, the vulgarians, the slobs.”

She associated Georgia’s capital city with “crime” and “riffraff,” similar to how Trump once disparaged Atlanta as “crime infested” and “falling apart.”

Just before the riots he had also responded to a rowdy reception committee in one banlieue by calling them racaille - riffraff.

Indeed, this “savage,” as Shakespeare took pains to note in his complicated depiction of Caliban, is a good deal more civilized than the drunken riffraff with whom he falls into cahoots.

“I’ve dealt with the riffraff on the street for 14 years so I know how to play that,” she said.