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When Blodget first started blogging, he was assailed online as "scum," "a boldfaced liar," and a "dirtbag".

A novel process was developed for converting scum, a waste material from wastewater treatment facilities, to biodiesel.

By the way: the only scum floating on Walden Pond is the Walden Pond Scum, a group of kayakers learning Greenland kayaking techniques; I'm a member.

The actors are generally good and mostly not well known, except for Charles Dance, playing aristocratic scum, a part he does well.

All January, I watched a Christmas bouquet of roses on one mantel diminish until the flowers were a blighted shrivel and the water green scum, a huge Santa on a stick still beaming merrily out of the ruins.

Travis looks around New York and sees "filth and scum", a community of creeps that deserves to be flushed down "the fuckin' toilet", whereas Laura's project, though unspecified, could hardly be social or municipal.

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It called Mr. Lee "despicable human scum," an epithet it had previously reserved for John R. Bolton, Washington's hard-line strategist during Mr. Bush's first term.

And now wants to label you a dick, or scum, or a bad immature person, because of one small mistake?

In these hidden corners I also saw great shoals of chub and bream, a giant carp slurping at scum in a neglected drain, barbel furrowing away.

By the late 1980s, after its conversion to condominiums, it became a target as the "Die, yuppie scum" building — a phrase that gained currency during the Tompkins Square Park rioting.

A terrible thing to exterminate racial "scum" but a sacred duty to wipe out ideological "scum".

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