Usually means: Dishonest, untrustworthy, and morally reprehensible.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word scummy:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. scummy: Merriam-Webster
  2. scummy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scummy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scummy: Vocabulary.com
  5. Scummy, scummy: Wordnik
  6. scummy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. scummy: Wiktionary
  8. scummy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scummy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scummy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scummy: Dictionary.com
  12. Scummy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Scummy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scummy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. scummy: Rhymezone
  16. Scummy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. scummy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. scummy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. scummy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scummy: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scummy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SCUMMY: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scummy)

▸ adjective:  Covered in scum.
▸ adjective:  (slang) sleazy, worthless, no good

Similar:
soiled, unclean, dirty, low-down, abject, low, miserable, contemptible, scurvy, scum-ridden, more...

Opposite:
clean, pure, pristine, immaculate



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Similar:
soiled, unclean, dirty, low-down, abject, low, miserable, contemptible, scurvy, scum-ridden, more...

Opposite:
clean, pure, pristine, immaculate



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