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scummy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scummy has 2 senses
- scummy(s = adj.all) abject, low, low-down, miserable, scurvy - of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
- scummy(s = adj.all) Array - covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond" Derived form noun scum2
CIDE DICTIONARY
scummy, a.
Covered with scum; of the nature of scum. Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
scummy
abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, barfy, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crappy, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filmy, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, foliaceous, foliated, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, gloppy, grave, gross, gunky, heinous, icky, in layers, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, little, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, membranous, mephitic, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, ordurous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scurfy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, sorry, spathic, spathose, sposhy, squalid, stratified, stratiform, three-ply, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, two-ply, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, valueless, vile, vomity, wormy, worthless, wretched, yecchy
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