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for scummy
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scummy \Scum"my\, a.
Covered with scum; of the nature of scum. --Sir P. Sidney.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
scummy
adj 1: 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" [syn: abject, low,
low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy]
2: covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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