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Definition of 'scumball'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (slang) Sleazy, disreputable, or despicable.
  • * 1996 , Barbara Parker, Blood Relations , Signet (1997), ISBN 9780451184733, page 315:
    • "This kid, your scumball client, also has a rap sheet six pages long. He shot a sixteen-year-old in the back last year and got sixty days on a piss-ass weapons violation because the victim wouldn't testify.
  • * 1999 , Lynn Emery, After All , Arabesque Books (1999), ISBN 9781583140628, page 136:
    • "I can't help it if your uncle and his scumball friends keep crawling out from under every rock that gets turned over in this town."
  • * 2006 , Jack Kerley, A Garden of Vipers , Dutton (2006), ISBN 9780525949527, page 288:
    • Another fifty grand for Shuttles; the scumball business was booming.
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    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (slang) A sleazy, disreputable, or despicable person; a lowlife.
  • * 2002 , Iris Johansen, Body of Lies , Bantam Books (2002), ISBN 9780553800975, page 158:
    • "Answer me. How would you feel if I was the one who might get knifed in the gullet by some scumball ?"
  • * 2006 , Peggy Moreland, The Texan's Convenient Marriage , Harlequin (2006), ISBN 9780373767366, pages 33-34:
    • Recently widowed and still grieving over the loss of her husband, his mother had been an easy mark for a scumball like Jacob. Playing on her weakened emotional state, within two months Jacob had sweet-talked her into marrying him.
  • * 2007 , Haruki Murakami, After Dark (trans. Jay Rubin), Vintage International (2007; original Japanese novel published 2004), ISBN 9780307388889, page 84:
    • He thinks 'cause he's stronger he can beat up a woman, strip her of everything she's got, and walk away. And on top of it he doesn't pay his damn hotel bill. That's a man for you — a real scumball ."
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    • Synonyms

    *scumbag, sleazebag, sleazeball

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