scummy
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Now, the only way to get tickets is through resellers, which feels scummy at the very least.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Of course that would be scummy, and it sounds like it must be fraud.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2022
Listen, spin docs: Quit rebranding pols who’ve acted scummy!
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
Typically, microbial inks rely on a scaffold of polymers to stiffen their scummy forms.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
It seemed to break from scummy bubbles lanced by the sun, and drift downwind, getting thicker.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
It was a macho thing: 'My contact is scummier than your contact.'
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2011
Then, Gillen sets them to scheming against each other in the scummiest corners of the Star Wars universe.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2019
Dish towels are some of the scummiest things in your kitchen.
From Time ● Jul. 14, 2017
Starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as the kind of comedically frayed problem-solvers found at the scummiest pulp’s logical conclusion, the film looks to reclaim the magic of Black’s comedy/mystery hybrid Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2016
Stocky paparazzi, wearing the same cargo-shorts-black-logo-tee uniform they wear on the scummiest corners of Hollywood Boulevard, lug their gear down the sidewalk in search of that perfect shot to sell to an Italian tabloid.
From The Verge ● May 15, 2015
Since then, as often as he has time, he goes to bathe in the scummiest parts, and then comes and tells me all about it with any amount of circumstantial evidence.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
