Sentence examples for scum as from inspiring English sources

"He's just scum as far as I'm concerned," says someone close to McBride.

Over to Tottenham police station, where chief superintendent Victor Olisa, one of only five non-white borough commanders, has to deal with the feelings towards the police on the streets ("Liars, racists, murdering scum!"), as well as personal accusations, that he only got that job because of his own ethnicity.

Using a large, flat spoon, skim off the scum as it rises from the bones.

At Ludgate Circus, where several hundred protesters turned their backs on the coffin, there was a highly charged atmosphere with chanting of "what a waste of money" and "Tory scum", as heated exchanges broke out between demonstrators and Thatcher supporters.

Racaille means "riff-raff" or, worse, "scum" – as it was generally translated when, following the banlieue riots of 2005, Nicolas Sarkozy notoriously proposed blasting such people off the streets with water cannons.

Outside the court, the Met assistant commissioner Mark Rowley was drowned out by protesters shouting "murderers" and "scum" as he tried to make a statement on Scotland Yard's behalf.

Discharge of such effluent into streams and rivers has caused many environmental problems, such as thermal impacts, slime growth, scum formation as well as loss of aesthetic beauty [5].

Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 April 25 , 19888) was an American writer who is best known for the SCUM Manifesto, as well as the attempted murder of artist Andy Warhol.

Anarchists shout "Tory scum" at us as we enter Conservative conference, and I was spat at pic.twitter.com/VrjIbaRapv In other incidents, journalists covering the conference, such as Channel 4 political correspondent Michael Crick, reported being spat on by protesters.

The week a UKIP candidate was exposed for referring to Muslims as "scum", but as his father later explained to journalists, his son wasn't a racist because he enjoys a curry.

Rather, he treats the eminent conductor like vile scum; he might as well be interrogating Goebbels himself.