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Example sentences for: scum

How can you use “scum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Rupert Murdoch is scum.
Other actors had played scum, but only Cagney played scum with an awesome dignity, like a predator in a nature documentary.
Scum floats to the top."
Although Woody Harrelson, playing Flynt in the movie, cheerfully describes himself as a scum bag, the movie clearly wants to have it both ways on this, and sanitizes Flynt's life in order to do so.
(You wretched scum.)