scummy
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And there are bad, scummy, volatile meme stocks like Bed Bath & Beyond.
From Slate ● May 13, 2024
“If you want to know how scummy the Razzie awards are, look no further than them nominating a 12-year-old for worst actress,” said another Twitter user.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Listen, spin docs: Quit rebranding pols who’ve acted scummy!
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
NVHAP, a risk for virtually all hospital patients, is often caused by bacteria from the mouth that gathers in the scummy biofilm on unbrushed teeth and is aspirated into the lungs.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022
In the green, scummy, holy water, I felt at peace.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
It was a macho thing: 'My contact is scummier than your contact.'
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2011
It would be cool if people could refrain from being their absolute scummiest, occasionally.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2022
Dish towels are some of the scummiest things in your kitchen.
From Time ● Jul. 14, 2017
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
Standout track Voices starts with the scummiest of pirate radio beats, a neo-soul vocal, and a woozy house synth.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013
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
