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Synonyms for scumbag

Most common

rat bum puke stinker sewer rat

All synonyms

Noun

1. Rat — A sleazy, disreputable, despicable, or otherwise immoral person; a lowlife

low-life, so-and-so, rat, bum, puke, stinker, skunk US, git, crumb, stinkpot, rotter slang UK AU, scunge slang

Other

sewer rat, scumball slang, scumbitch slang

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A sleazy, disreputable, despicable, or otherwise immoral person; a lowlife.

    Can you believe that scumbag Steve asked to sleep with her before even asking her name?

Related words

Word family
scumbaggery scuzzball

Forms

Plural
scumbags → low-lifes, so-and-sos, rats, bums…

Example sentences

  • rat He hollowed out a mountain only to pull out a rat.
  • bum That lazy bum hasn't done a hand's turn in his life.
  • puke If you're going to puke, do it in the tote bag.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
scumbagrising
ratfalling
bumrising
pukerising
stinkerrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
rat1, bum1, git1
4 letters
puke1
5 letters
skunk1, crumb1
6 letters
rotter2, scunge
7 letters
stinker
8 letters
stinkpot, scumball
9 letters
scumbitch

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rotter2 = 2 syllables).