off-scouring

Most of the settlers were honest, law-abiding persons, who had sought to improve their means by emigrating to this western country; but many of the vicious off-scouring of the older settlements also went west to hide their crimes or to commit new ones.

The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

Crawling Water and practically ruled it, surrounded as he was by some sixty adherents, the off-scouring of a dozen lawless communities.

Hidden Gold Wilder Anthony

Here we see him, while others are intent on the holy service, transgressing the laws both of God and man, gambling on a tomb-stone with the off-scouring of the people, the meanest of the human species, shoe-blacks, chimney-sweepers, &c. for none but such would deign to be his companions.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

Instead of a few thousands of the off-scouring, as you call them, there has simply been

All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Joseph Hocking 1898

And yet Christianity has to thank precisely this miserable flattery of personal vanity for its triumph -- it was thus that it lured all the botched, the dissatisfied, the fallen upon evil days, the whole refuse and off-scouring of humanity to its side.

The Antichrist 1895

And again, "the off-scouring of all men;" not of you alone, but of all.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

Eta, [54] though in individual cases becoming measurably rich, rotted and starved, and were made the filth, and off-scouring of the earth, because they were the butchers, the skinners, the leather workers, and thus handled dead animals, being made also the executioners and buriers of the dead.

The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885

We are blasphemed, and we entreat: we are made as the refuse of this world, the off-scouring, and as it were the parings, of all even until now.

Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

It was almost amusing to see the great curiosity that was manifested the next day after my arrest, by crowds of people who came to the jail to see the awful Abolitionist, though about that time it was too serious a matter to me to make a joke of, for hundreds of the off-scouring of the city would have been glad to hang me if they could have had an opportunity to do it.

Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents 1880

Oh, leave them not there to die, for they die not alone, as filth, rages and vice, the ignorant, the degraded, the licentious, the off-scouring of humanity are all linked by an indissoluble tie to you and me, and we must lift them up or they drag us down.

Shall Woman Vote? Staff 1866