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Recent Examples of scum Find it on Amazon A Soap Dish That Keeps the Counter Clean The silicone soap dish has deep edges that prevent soap scum and water from accumulating around the sink, while raised ridges provide aeration. Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024 Add in moisture and soap scum, and kitchen sinks can get pretty disgusting. Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2024 This frequency will prevent water spots from forming on glass or tiled walls, and can also prevent soap scum, mold, and mildew from setting into the grout. Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2024 People waterskiing, boating or tubing in areas with algal scums may be exposed to breathing in water droplets that could contain toxins. Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scum 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scum
Noun
  • Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
  • All this anti-Soviet scum, all this rabble revolves around Sakharov.
    Gal Beckerman, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2012
Noun
  • Or averred that Biden was sharp as a tack and that anyone who suggested otherwise was a jerk.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The extra that was shot by accident earlier this season was one such obnoxious jerk.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • At almost every moment since May, the election has found a way to demand the near-constant attention of a populace wary of former President Trump, President Biden and Vice President Harris, who are historically unpopular.
    Noah Bressner, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Some notable proportion of the populace will undoubtedly seek mental solace, of which, modern-day generative AI presumably stands ready to help.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • It Chapter Two is down to clown, again — in a bloody, silly, overwrought sequel Moving down the tension scale to thrillers, Netflix is offloading a few particularly popular titles.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • An 8-year-old girl fought off a man wearing a clown mask who police in Colorado reported attacked and attempted to kidnap her during a break-in at her family's home last week.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The next city holiday to affect trash pickup in Louisville is Thanksgiving.
    John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
  • One resident showed a reporter a photo of a trash fire taken earlier in the week in the building.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • According to LifeLine, the DeKalb shelter takes in 135 dogs a week on average.
    Jim Gaines, ajc, 13 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Inspired by Karl Marx, the Bolsheviks dreamed of a world communist revolution and held special expectations for Germany, Marx’s homeland, and for its proletariat.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
  • The first scenario does much more to reduce poverty, demonstrating the importance of permanently expanding access to unemployment insurance to workers with nontraditional jobs—part-timers, freelancers, and other members of the gig economy’s swelling proletariat.
    Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22) Playing practical joker?
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
  • These psychological and professional maneuverings are, from the start, shuffled madly by a joker in the deck, whose introduction to the story is a mark of Bodet’s cinematographic and comedic inspiration.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024

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“Scum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scum. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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