How to Use scuzzy in a Sentence

scuzzy

adjective

• He is a scuzzy guy.
• In his scuzzy motel rooms, Tell wraps every piece of furniture — the lamps, the desks, the bed — in white cloths.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• For them, the whole group of speculators in railroad bonds was kind of scuzzy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• Jasper, with his greasy long hair and scuzzy mug and brash instincts, is the veteran too smart to fool, the fly in every ointment.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
• Throughout the album, there are scuzzy bass lines reminiscent of the Stooges.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2020
• If your coffee is coming out bitter and scuzzy, your moka pot might need a deep clean.
  — Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 16 Aug. 2022
• One scene plays with the cramped aisles of a bodega, as Ghostface makes like the killer of scuzzy New York slasher Maniac and brings a shotgun to the party.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 8 Mar. 2023
• His novels about the scuzzy bits of London life are nastily readable.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• In that gap, the band tightened up the spaces in its songs and beefed up the scuzzy melodic lines to make Guppy, a no-filler album of 10 concise, joyous pop-punk blasts.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2017
• Tumblr kids in fishnet tights and scuffed Dr. Martens established their scuzzy, soft grunge aesthetic.
  — Sophie Lou Wilson, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• The movie is about an unhappy nurse, Martha, and a scuzzy gigolo, Ray, who draws Martha into his scheme of luring lonely old ladies into their nest and killing them for their pensions.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• About 20 miles south of Cancun, Mexico, on a stifling summer day, Tom Iliffe squints over a limestone ledge and into a giant pool of scuzzy, brown water.
  — Jennifer Berglund, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2014
• The series, in fact, begins with Costello and daughter Iris (Fleur Tashjian), nearing her 10th birthday, getting kicked out of their scuzzy flat and beginning an eight-episode odyssey for domestic stability.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2023
• The original was a potent enough folk-rock tune, but for her solo rendition Kiah dialed up the amplifiers and turned it into a pulverizing number that weds blues and scuzzy alt-rock to a funky backbeat.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2021
• The moment mirrors the broad terror that defines the band’s scuzzy, hooky rock music that takes aim at gentrification and homogeneity, settling down and domesticity.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• Beetz plays Bo, a compassionate celebrity photographer who leaves behind the scuzzy practice after snapping photos of an actor having an affair, which leads to his suicide.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• Henriksen plays Hanlon as a gorgeously scuzzy wannabe-dandy quickshooter who, convinced of his unflappable trigger talents, features in the film's most memorable duel opposite Hackman.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• The organization is a civilian crime-watch group whose recruits became street icons for patrolling scuzzy subway cars, intimidating chain snatchers, making the occasional citizen’s arrest, and irritating the police.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024