scum
/skĘŚm/noun, verb1 syllable
Scum means: worthless people.
Synonyms for scum16
noun, as in worthless people
What does scum mean?3
noun
1
worthless people
2
a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid
verb
1
remove the scum from
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with scum?23
two syllables
becomesuccumb
Scum in a sentence
- Maybe a few of them are good people, but the majority are scum.mailohilohi
- If you don't want to become the scum of the earth, get angry!Miktsoanit
- You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.horsebones
- These people are the scum of the earth.mailohilohi
- They are scum who raise their children to be criminals.mailohilohi
- Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.AutoBot
- Remove any scum that comes to the water surface.unknown
- Squeegee the shower walls to prevent soap scum buildup.Amastan
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of scum
as a noun
- plural
- scums
as a verb
- third-person singular
- scums
- present participle
- scumming
- past participle
- scummed
- past tense
- scummed