scummy adj 1: of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" [syn: {abject}, {low}, {low-down}, {miserable}, {scummy}, {scurvy}] 2: covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"
Scummy \Scum"my\, a. Covered with scum; of the nature of scum. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "scummy": abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, barfy, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crappy, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filmy, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, foliaceous, foliated, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, gloppy, grave, gross, gunky, heinous, icky, in layers, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, little, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, membranous, mephitic, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, ordurous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scurfy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, sorry, spathic, spathose, sposhy, squalid, stratified, stratiform, three-ply, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, two-ply, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, valueless, vile, vomity, wormy, worthless, wretched, yecchy