How to Use scumbag in a Sentence

scumbag

noun

• And Corey’s a scumbag low life, by the way, who’s a thief.
  — Olivia Nuzzi, Daily Intelligencer, 6 Mar. 2018
• Can’t wait for the files to come out about your scumbag hero.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 Jan. 2018
• What kind of a complete scumbag lowlife piece of garbage does this?
  — Dallas News, 25 May 2022
• The man is a scumbag named John, and Bilquis is a prostitute.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 1 May 2017
• We were turned away again and again, like a scumbag retelling of the Biblical magi.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• This evil scumbag is, if not the best, then at least the most memorable new character this season.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 July 2019
• This new scumbag combines the tech-savvyness of Silicon Valley with the moral and ethics of 1980s Wall Street yuppies.
  — Craig Timberg, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• In short, the Cockney flower girl is attracted to everything that her scumbag of a father is not.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Not only are the brother, the friend, and your husband all scumbags, but there is physical proof of the crime(s), and there are probably other victims.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 8 June 2017
• The mother of a Baltimore activist, who agrees that some of the protests went too far, still takes issue with Barkley’s use of the word scumbags to refer to the protesters in Ferguson the year before.
  — Aisha Harris, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
• And all of the more than 150 females who testified against one of the biggest scumbags in the history of American sports, Dr. Larry Nassar, trusted their mom and dad.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 24 Jan. 2018
• Pilou Asbæk goes full raging scumbag as the evil Captain Wafner.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2021
• When two detectives came in and called her a scumbag, then the girl's mother followed weeping, Thomas was hesitant to ask the grieving mother questions.
  — Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
• There was scumbag opportunist Cory Booker, hugging McCain and acting like this was some kind of heartwarming meeting of the minds.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 25 July 2017
• From amazing new BFFs to totally evil scumbags, here are our new favorite Marshmallows.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 July 2019
• People's ideal politicians aren't honest scumbags who make no bones about their craven scumbaggery.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 26 Oct. 2017
• A heated confrontation ensues, but the stranger (another young scumbag like Pattinson) manages to strike a deal.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 17 Aug. 2017
• The scumbags definitely want to gain control of our government for their own purposes.
  — Craig Timberg, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• The scumbag personal injury lawyers, the tips on selling old gold, the constipation remedy ones with those smiling and relieved idiots, etc.
  — The Hive, 11 May 2017
• Johnson’s body language is a provocation: his legs are spread, casually, like a scumbag royal, his black skin suit stretching and flexing over his ample form.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• Don’t give money to scumbag bootleggers and opportunists.
  — Ashley Lasimone, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2017
• The plot might be unbelievable, but watching that scumbag Paolo get embarrassed in front of the entire country is still beyond satisfying.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 28 Sep. 2017
• But Starlight isn't scared of Homelander anymore, calling him out for killing Supersonic and generally being a complete scumbag.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 1 July 2022
• One sports a combination of blue and neon yellow, and the other is neon purple and neon orange, giving it exactly the same color scheme as Waluigi, the single biggest scumbag in Nintendo’s character lineup.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 17 July 2019
• Bacon is strangely delightful as a standard-issue scumbag antihero, chewing scenery with aplomb.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 June 2019
• Alabama won the tournament over the weekend, but the image of the university continued to lose respectability when two scumbags showed up to Bridgestone Arena wearing T-shirts celebrating the death of Harris.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2023
• For Sheriff Mike Chitwood, there are some criminals who only fit one appropriate description: scumbags.
  — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• As the rascally Royal Tenenabum, Hackman injects wit and humanity into a scumbag looking to reconnect with his rightly skeptical ex-wife children.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 30 Jan. 2022
• Thomas usually gets depicted as an altruistic rich fella gunned down in his prime, but The Batman has created room for less ethical, more scumbag-y interpretations.
  — Vulture, 20 Mar. 2022
• Your primary advisers make excellent foils to his nervous prodding; each is basically a different flavor of single-minded scumbag.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 19 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024