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scum of the earth |
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the scum of the earth (very informal) if a group of people are the scum of the earth, they are the worst type of people. People who abuse children are the scum of the earth. See also: earth |
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So far from having high connections I have no connections at all, and I come of the scum of the earth. 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? And against that, I have the misfortune to be a convicted felon, who has spent the last ten or a dozen years amongst the scum of the earth, engaged in degrading tasks, and with no identity save a number. |
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