| 词汇 | scummy |
| 释义 | scummy adjective uk /ˈskʌm.i/ us /ˈskʌm.i/ scummyadjective (OF WATER ETC)Scummy water or another liquid is covered with a layer of an unpleasant substance: （液体上）有浮沫的，有浮渣的，有浮垢的 a scummy pool飘着浮垢的水池 Oxygen levels can plunge, killing fish and making the water smelly and scummy. Children should especially be kept from entering scummy water since they are more likely than adults to ingest the water. Skim off any scummy substance that rises to the top. Rubbish and waste activated sludge anti-litter anti-littering debris dejunk garbage garbage disposal gubbins high-level waste influent litter muck rubbish sewerage shavings skip diving slag spoil tat white elephant scummyadjective (DIRTY)informal unpleasant and dirty or in bad condition: 脏乱的 a scummy part of town城里一个脏乱的地方 I threw on some scummy jeans and a T-shirt. The toothbrush sits in a scummy holder on a dirty bathroom countertop. He'd taken us all to a scummy wine bar in Chalk Farm. Old scummy goggles are not proper protection. Our room is scummy and old and smells funny. Dirty & untidy all over the placeidiom Augean besmeared bespattered bloodied look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom look like/as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwardsidiom manky messily messy sluttish sluttishly soiled sordid sordidly unsterilized untidily untidy untrimmed unwashed scummyadjective (morally bad)informal morally bad: 卑鄙的，无耻的 a scummy way to treat someone卑鄙地对待别人的方式 See scum This guy is such a scummy low-life, he gives pimps a bad name. I told him it was a scummy thing to do. What infuriates me is when you see scummy people dropping litter. I now know he's also a scummy adulterer. There is nothing so scummy as ignorant hate disguised as an honest opinion. Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariously nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical Examples of scummyscummy None of them sound very scummy after all. From Wired After all, "pubescent" does not equal "mentally mature," and "is scummy" and "should be locked up" are not mutually exclusive concepts. From Slate Magazine That's not high-tech jargon for, say, a scummy site that steals private data off of your social networks and sells it to marketers. From TechCrunch I am also the person who cleanes the scummy microwave and the utensils left in the sink. From CNN We can practically feel the slightly scummy texture of the interior surface of the jar. From Huffington Post And people will think you're scummy. From Slate Magazine Then again that requires you to want to know the truth, as opposed to wanting to learn more talking points to slam those scummy libruls with. From Washington Post He found his stream, a thread of water, hardly more than a series of scummy pools with the vegetation still meeting almost solidly over it. From Project Gutenberg Once the dog's tracks led aside to a scummy puddle, saucered by alkali, dotted with the spoor of desert animals that drank the bitter water in extremity. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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