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Example sentences for: scum

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He relishes a few absurdities as they glide past--the accidental meeting of Nancy Reagan and Heidi Fleiss in a hotel lobby, or the sight of African-American servants wincing in the background as beautiful white people call O.J. the scum of the earth.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Rupert Murdoch is scum.
He tells me that Clinton thinks we are scum.
Yes, of course, there is the massive hypocrisy of the American public when they say in polls that the media is scum: They love all the coverage, love the Lady Di and Royal Family hagiography, etc.
I reply, "Well, we are scum.