Synonyms
- bastard
- beast
- bleeder [British]
- blighter [chiefly British]
- boor
- bounder
- bugger
- buzzard
- cad
- chuff
- churl
- clown
- creep
- cretin
- crud [slang]
- crumb [slang]
- cur
- dirtbag [slang]
- dog
- fink
- heel
- hound
- jerk
- joker
- louse
- lout
- pill
- rat
- rat fink
- reptile
- rotter
- schmuck [slang]
- scum
- scuzzball [slang]
- skunk
- sleaze
- sleazebag [slang]
- sleazeball [slang]
- slime
- slimeball [slang]
- slob
- snake
- so-and-so
- sod [chiefly British]
- stinkard
- stinker
- swine
- toad
- varmint
- vermin
Examples of scumbag in a Sentence
don't romanticize that con artist, as she's nothing more than a scumbag who cheats the most vulnerable
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But Pip gets what’s coming to her: Max is a scumbag.
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Fletcher Peters, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
In these overwhelmingly heteronormative stories, creators explore the eternal question of why, exactly, (some) women are attracted to scumbags.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
The idea that the President's kid is a scumbag is not surprising but this is another definition of political prosecution.
—Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
Williams’s play is responding to trends in the heat of its moment—urban decay, white flight, national opinion on the Vietnam War—and renders them broadly (as in some of the caricatures of city scumbags) but also with immediacy.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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Fletcher Peters, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
In these overwhelmingly heteronormative stories, creators explore the eternal question of why, exactly, (some) women are attracted to scumbags.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
The idea that the President's kid is a scumbag is not surprising but this is another definition of political prosecution.
—Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
Williams’s play is responding to trends in the heat of its moment—urban decay, white flight, national opinion on the Vietnam War—and renders them broadly (as in some of the caricatures of city scumbags) but also with immediacy.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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“Scumbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scumbag. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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