scum bag

Questions about scum bag

What does scum bag mean?

scum bag means "a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible".

What is another word for scum bag?

Close synonyms include rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scum bag a common word?

scum bag is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.