[
UK
/skˈʌmi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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covered with scum
the scummy surface of the polluted pond -
of the most contemptible kind
a low stunt to pull
a scummy rabble
his miserable treatment of his family
abject cowardice
a scurvy trick
a low-down sneak
You miserable skunk!
How To Use scummy In A Sentence
- Queen Street W in our 'hood used to be kind of scummy with old air conditioning stores, dirty restaurants, etc. Archive 2006-12-01
- a scummy rabble
- They're just relying on the consumer to make certain erroneous assumptions -- namely, that no one would be scummy enough to exploit cancer for profit. Pandora Young: The Pink Ribbon Marketing Scam
- Submerged leaves decompose quickly and can cause scummy bacteria to form.
- Close up, Carlile noticed the dark scummy shoreline and two car tires mired in the mud.
- Trained as a chemist, he first made his living not in wine but in one of its lowlier by-products, tartaric acid, a scummy substance derived from grape skins that could be refined into cream of tartar, which was the active element in baking powder and a useful substance in various other culinary endeavors; you could even clean pots with it. LAST CALL
- Simmer for five minutes before skimming off any scummy bits gathered on the surface.
- They had fishing poles, and lines with corks on them out floating in the scummy water.
- We have lost our way if we've forgotten the importance of protecting speech that is "scummy" and "offensive" and "tripe. Archive 2007-06-01
- the scummy surface of the polluted pond
