scum of the earth
Example Sentences
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“You are just treated like the scum of the earth basically,” said Phil, a 52-year-old British truck driver from Malvern in central England, who has just had what he termed a significant pay rise.
From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2021
The book poses this principled question: How did the salt of the earth come to be viewed as the scum of the earth?
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2011
"I don't mind playing the scum of the earth if he can also recite Byron," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, McKevitt acknowledges that when an ex-member turns to lobbying, the attitude of his former colleagues changes: "It's not that they see you as scum of the earth, but it is a kind of disdain."
From Time Magazine Archive
Elizabeth Fry was not afraid to mingle in Newgate prison with the scum of the earth, but she was afraid to touch the hem of Lucretia Mott's garment.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
