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English
Etymology
From scum + ball.
Pronunciation
Adjective
scumball (comparative more scumball, superlative most scumball)
- (slang) Sleazy, disreputable, or despicable.
1996, Barbara Parker, Blood Relations, Signet, published 1997, →ISBN, page 315:"This kid, your scumball client, also has a rap sheet six pages long. He shot a sixteen-year-old in the back last year and got sixty days on a piss-ass weapons violation because the victim wouldn't testify. […]
1999, Lynn Emery, After All, Arabesque Books, →ISBN, page 136:"I can't help it if your uncle and his scumball friends keep crawling out from under every rock that gets turned over in this town."
2006, Jack Kerley, A Garden of Vipers, Dutton, →ISBN, page 288:Another fifty grand for Shuttles; the scumball business was booming.
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Noun
scumball (plural scumballs)
- (slang) A sleazy, disreputable, or despicable person; a lowlife.
2002, Iris Johansen, Body of Lies, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 158:"Answer me. How would you feel if I was the one who might get knifed in the gullet by some scumball?"
2006, Peggy Moreland, The Texan's Convenient Marriage, Harlequin, →ISBN, pages 33–34:Recently widowed and still grieving over the loss of her husband, his mother had been an easy mark for a scumball like Jacob. Playing on her weakened emotional state, within two months Jacob had sweet-talked her into marrying him.
- 2007, Haruki Murakami, After Dark (trans. Jay Rubin), Vintage International (2007; original Japanese novel published 2004), →ISBN, page 84:
- He thinks 'cause he's stronger he can beat up a woman, strip her of everything she's got, and walk away. And on top of it he doesn't pay his damn hotel bill. That's a man for you — a real scumball."
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