scummy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈskʌmi/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From scum + -y.
Meanings
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Covered in scum.
We have to wash your trousers: they're all scummy.
Now that the sun was getting high it drew thin sickly looking clouds of poisonous vapour from the surface of the marsh and from the scummy pools of stagnant water.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
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(slang) sleazy, worthless, no good
And what a scummy man / just give him half a chance / I bet he'll rob you if he can.
2006, Arctic Monkeys, “When the Sun Goes Down”:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| scummier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| scummiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
Hypernyms
dirtsome · sullied · grotty · sordid · icky · dirty · lousy · manky · foul · soiled · seamy · unclean · cruddy · horry · squalid · yucky · sullied · grubby · befouled · nasty · befouled · manky · clarty · unwashed · besmirched
Synonyms
hylical · ugly · slavish · suckworthy · vile · mucid · pathetic · ignominious · punk · dedecorous · goodless · sorry-ass · unsophisticated · carrion · sorry · sordid · pitiful · scabbed · shameful · miserable · scald · unwashed · disreputable · sixpenny · trinkety · draffish · unappreciated · disgraceful · bastardly · lousy · good-for-nothing · hylic · tenth-rate · not worth a brass farthing · shand · reptitious · deplorable · outrageous · putrid · not worth a nickel · no good / no-good · duffing · tripy · vain · pissass · for the birds · not worth hell room · despicable · mean-spirited · jabberwocky · scummy · slimy · cocking · punk · scabbed · wutless · reprehensive · uncommendable · cheap · not worth a penny · plebeian · rubbishly · cullionly · toshy · ineffectual · lame · ludicrous · two-bit · invaluable · not worth a cress · unworthy · garbagey · not worth salt · degraded · unvaluable · putid · sleazy · nought · no-account · naughty · drecky · roynish · uncool · not worth a plug nickel · reptilian · worthless · choical · dreckish · draffy · lousy · dirty · risible · not worth a whistle · shitty-ass · of no value · crapalicious · obscene · execrable · shitstained · not worth a Continental · trashy · despisable · strawlike · good-for-naught · paltry · weak · inglorious · not worth a curse · laughable · valueless · not worth a cent · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · wretched · valueless · ignoble · deridable · scurvy · low · not worth a dime · abject · cringing · shabby · cruddy · blameworthy · beggarly · rubbishy · loathsome · disdainable · not worth a farthing · discreditable · vulgar · nonvaluable · ridiculous · vile · scummy · groveling · cacky · filthy · worthless · chaffy · reptile · mouldy · unmentionable · junky · shitey · fucking · shit · mean · dishonorable · blown · good-for-nothing · shit · base · damnable · reprehensible · contemptible · pitiable · not worth a damn · screwy · pissass · scornworthy · worth nothing · derisible · triobolar