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Перевод: scummy
[прилагательное]
пенистый; низкий; подлый
Тезаурус:
- Robert Forbes was born Terence Lewthwaite in Salford, part of the industrial heartland of England, a sprawl of sour streets of back-to-back houses, cross-hatched with scummy canals and punctuated by decaying factories which fouled the atmosphere with their effluents.
- Tucking the loaf into her shirt top, Jess wrapped herself monkey-like, legs and arms round the rope, swinging across the scummy water hand over hand, gripping and letting go with easy rhythm until she reached the side of the brig.
- "What infuriates me is when you see scummy people dropping litter.
- the mud of the ditches oozed scummy water,
- Opaque scummy floods lapped only a metre below her feet; a foul smell made her nauseous.
- Even the fact that I finally found a trickle of scummy water, which let me rinse some of the filth from my boots, did nothing to lift my spirits.
- The ashtray by the bed was crammed with cigarette butts, and two mugs of cold, scummy tea perched precariously on the bed-side table.
- He looked small and helpless, almost engulfed by the scummy grey tidal waters slopping and heaving all around him.
- I spent a lot of time lying on the couch in the living room, watching day-time television with a sneer on my face and my books on my lap, making snide remarks at the soaps and quizzes, chat shows and audience participation fora, skimming the scummy surface of our effervescent present in preference to plumbing the adumbrate depths of the underlying past.
- She ran frantically back, splashing through the scummy water, stumbling, not caring how much noise she made, and plunged into the darkness of the right-hand tunnel, feeling her way along the walls.
- The local street kids were a scummy lot.
- This time the Mondays felt the full bite of backlash and came across as a scummy homophobes busy, said writer Stephen Wells, "articulating bootstrap Thatcherism".
- Nor did I look too closely at a scummy pool nearby, which rippled ominously.
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