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  • noun Plural form of scuzzball.

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Examples

  • I'm a damn sharp trader, and if I didn't have to mess with phony receipts and deposits — not to mention the kind of scuzzballs I've got to deal with — well, there's no telling what kind of bucks I might make. "

    Leave a Message for Willie Muller, Marcia 1984

  • They've been getting people to write about how they're a reaction to the middle-class Brooklyn pop of Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend and Dirty Projectors, about how "ghettocore" they are, how they're scuzzballs from an east New York that we assumed Giuliani had gentrified out of existence, a Death Wish version of the city populated by junkies, murderers and scumbags.

    Cerebral Ballzy (No 798) 2010

  • So poor old Burberry didn't even get any short-term profit out of their inadvertent adoption by scuzzballs.

    The National Affront juliette 2009

  • So poor old Burberry didn't even get any short-term profit out of their inadvertent adoption by scuzzballs.

    Archive 2009-09-01 juliette 2009

  • If it's patriotic and English, it's for gullible tourists to take home to Des Moines, cooler-than-thou fashionistas to wear ironically, or mad white supremacist scuzzballs to wave about frenziedly and discredit even further.

    Archive 2009-09-01 juliette 2009

  • If it's patriotic and English, it's for gullible tourists to take home to Des Moines, cooler-than-thou fashionistas to wear ironically, or mad white supremacist scuzzballs to wave about frenziedly and discredit even further.

    The National Affront juliette 2009

  • I never heard him use any curse words, but that morning, when I told him how Id gotten beat up, he said, Well, dang, Rico, I guess there are scuzzballs everywhere.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • Yep, I said, nodding even if I didnt know exactly what scuzzballs were.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • I never heard him use any curse words, but that morning, when I told him how Id gotten beat up, he said, Well, dang, Rico, I guess there are scuzzballs everywhere.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • CHRISTGAU: Like the old cowpunks they are, the Drive-By Truckers have a soft spot for losers and total scuzzballs.

    Drive-By Truckers: New, 'Brighter' Songs 2008

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