The phrase "a scumbag of" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe someone in a derogatory manner, but it lacks proper context and structure.
Example: "He acted like a scumbag of a friend when he betrayed my trust."
Alternatives: "a lowlife" or "a piece of trash".
Again, most of us never have the experience of being swept off our feet by an extremely wealthy and charming European (even though he turned out to be a scumbag); plus many of us have enormous difficulty leaving troubled and depleting relationships.
The Church of Scientology has been less complimentary; the executor of Hubbard's estate called it "a scumbag book ... full of bullshit" in a court deposition in the U.S. Russell Miller had been an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times and had written well-received biographies of Hugh Hefner and J. Paul Getty.
Its view of Miller's book was summed up by the executor of the Hubbard estate, who called it "a scumbag book... full of bullshit", while a Scientology spokesperson in Canada compared it to "a life of Christ [written] by Judas Iscariot".
It's easy to paint anyone behind a "sexy" iPhone app as a scumbag, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of young men have iPhones, and they're willing to pay a few dollars for sexy photos — it's business.
Do say: Be a scumbag, is the moral of the story, but do it in fancy dress.
The big winner is a checklist that rates how much of a scumbag you are. .
Johnny Depp is even more of a scumbag now than when the first Pirates came out, and it can be hard to watch him do anything these days.
Although she called her superior a "d*ck" and a "scumbag" -- the kind of insubordination that workers are routinely fired for -- the worker's Facebook back-and-forth also seemed to include a meaningful discussion of workplace conditions, an activity protected by labor law.
I don't see positive things in Frankie's future, which is sad, 'cause when I met him in '07, he was 20 years old and a bright kid who got caught selling drugs, but really wasn't that big of a scumbag.
