Crossword-Solution: SCUM 4 letters, 224 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Scum v. The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface
of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by
other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.
Scum v. refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
Scum v. t. To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from
the surface of; to skim.
Scum v. t. To sweep or range over the surface of.
Scum v. i. To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used
figuratively.

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SCUM anagram MUSC, USMC

We have 224 clues for the answer “SCUM”

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"Rebel ___" ("Star Wars" fan film) 1 answer
Ajax's target 1 answer
Anything vile. 1 answer
Bath tile residue 1 answer
Bath water residue 1 answer
Bath-water residue 1 answer
Bathtub buildup 1 answer
Bathtub dirt 1 answer
Bathtub gunk 1 answer
Bathtub ring gunk 1 answer
Bathtub ring, essentially 1 answer
Bathtub woe 1 answer
Build-up in an aquarium 1 answer
Buildup in a fish tank 1 answer
Disgusting film 1 answer
Dross on top of molten metals. 1 answer
Dross or refuse. 1 answer
FILM on liquid 1 answer
FLOATING filth 1 answer
FLOATING waste matter 1 answer
Film about fish tanks? 1 answer
Film across the pond? 1 answer
Film in a shower 1 answer
Film on a pond 1 answer
Film on liquids. 1 answer
Film on ponds 1 answer
Film on stagnant water 1 answer
Film on the surface of a liquid 1 answer
Film on water 1 answer
Film you don't want to see 1 answer
Floating dirt on surface 1 answer
Floating film of filth 1 answer
Foul film 1 answer
Fountain build-up 1 answer
Gooey surface 1 answer
Grimy coating 1 answer
Grimy residue 1 answer
Growth on some ponds 1 answer
Gunk in a pond 1 answer
Gunk on a pond 1 answer
Gunk on an aquarium 1 answer
Icky pond residue 1 answer
Icky pond surface 1 answer
Impurities on top of liquids. 1 answer
Isaac Singer's last novel 1 answer
It may be found on a tank 1 answer
It's skimmed off at a wastewater treatment facility 1 answer
LIQUID surface impurity 1 answer
Layer of gunk 1 answer
Layer on a stagnant pond 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with SCUM (5)

Peter had already lashed himself to the wheel; but he piped all hands and delivered a short address to them; said he hoped they would do their duty like gallant hearties, but that he knew they were the scum of Rio and the Gold Coast, and if they snapped at him he would tear them.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
And where it came upon water some chemical action occurred, and the surface would be instantly covered with a powdery scum that sank slowly and made way for more.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
The “dangerous class,” the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1993
There were others, too, ten of them all told, the scum of the South Sea ports; but Gust and Momulla and Kai Shang were the brains and cunning of the company.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Here is a fellow, who, infected by the most pestilent and blasphemous code of devilry that ever was known, abandoned his property to the vilest scum of the earth that ever did murder by wholesale, and you ask me why I am sorry that a man who instructs youth knows him? Well, but I’ll answer you.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Quotes with SCUM (3)

You don't want to have any pity on these here tramps — scum, they are. You don't want to judge them by the same standards as men like you and me. They're scum, just scum.' It was interesting to see the subtle way in which he disassociated himself from 'these here tramps'. He had been on the road six months, but in the sight of God, he seemed to imply, he was not a tramp. I imagine there are quite a lot of tramps who thank God they are not tramps. They are like the trippers wh…
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!
Rick Riordan The Son of Neptune
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 239 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).