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Nasty and unpleasant
Answer for the clue "Nasty and unpleasant ", 6 letters:
scummy
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Word definitions for scummy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Covered in scum. 2 (context slang English) sleazy, worthless, no good
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" [syn: abject , low , low-down , miserable , scurvy ] ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scummy \Scum"my\, a. Covered with scum; of the nature of scum. --Sir P. Sidney.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from scum + -y (2). Transferred sense of "filthy, disreputable" is recorded from 1932. Related: Scumminess .
Usage examples of scummy.
A skankified couch, disemboweled lounge chair, and mildewy mattress stain an already scummy scene.
The East River is running level with it, its testy new edge, white and scummy, has begun to snake across the merge.
He sat there under his belly, a thirty-dollar-a-week moron of a fat Babbitt bastard with a hanging gut and a girl at his side, a slut, a bitch, a whore beside him, a scummy female.
She tried to picture Gloria deliberately wading into the scummy shallows of Jinny Hoolets pond, intending to kill herself.
The sinks were slimed with violently green liquid soap, scummy with old lather, and dripping with dirty water.
A ditch lay on the far side of the road, between it and the wall, shallow and filled with scummy water, but that would be more of a problem for the two Wolves than for Blade.
Lesser breeds had to paddle for it in the scummy, brackish canals of Times Square, Wall Street, Rockefeller Center, and other unimportant places, fending off lumps of offal and each other as best they could, or jamming over the interbuilding bridges, or trying to flag down an occasional blimp.
The scummy reinforcements were at least four or five thousand strong, and their banners flapped in the breeze.
Cherubic features moulded into a satanic complexion - a desert of flaked, crumbling skin relieved only by oases of dermatitic pimplery : like the scummy death-mask of Troy Donahue, Peter McEnery, or some other noted pretty-boy.
Afterwards it became apparent that the camel must have gotten into the aphrodisiacs, for one of the bottles was pashed as if by a hoof, with only a scummy licked patch showing where its leaked contents had been, and two of the small clay jars were vanished entirely.
Not the scummy northern part of Brookline with its two-hundred-thousand-dollar condos.
The company began to pour fire down on the scummy positions surrounding the sewage ditch bridgehead as the gunnery sergeant slid down the rope.
Greyboar and I recognized the name, of course, since Muroidea was one of the scummiest lawyers of Sfinctria (i.
The end of the string traveled upward and off target, but most of them hammered into the area where the scummies had taken cover.
They came out upon the beach where one of the purple patches touched the shore and Dane noted that it left a scummy deposit there.