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skank

noun as in crud

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The GOP candidate for governor in North Carolina, Mark Robinson, has a humiliating past soundbite drop practically every week now, including the latest where he calls Beyoncé a "skank."

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All I could think was: “I’m a homewrecker now. I’m that skank.”

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“He was a freelance extortionist and had hotel suites hot-wired all over the city. He had the dirt, the skank, the skinny — and it was all true,” Ellroy said.

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Republican reactions to the original Walker story played out along the standard sexist double standard: A man is instantly forgiven for just "spreading his seed," while the woman is degraded as " some skank."

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“Parents of boys, let your sons know that there are scheming skanks out there,” reads another.

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