1996, Barbara Parker, Blood Relations, Signet (1997), →ISBN, page 315:
"This kid, your scumball client, also has a rap sheet six pages long. He shot a sixteen-year-old in the back last year and got sixty days on a piss-ass weapons violation because the victim wouldn't testify. […]
But the little scumball had finally been run to ground at a biker bar down in Loring, a trashy little burg stuck down between the hills along the Iowa border.
1999, Diana Braund, Wicked Good Time, Naiad Press (1999), →ISBN, page 89:
"Come by tomorrow. We'll talk about how we can catch this scumball."
1999, Joan Elliott Pickart, The Most Eligible MD, Silhouette Books (1999), →ISBN, page 26:
[…] In my opinion, some scumball has been using that pretty little gal for a punching bag. All the signs are there. She's been physically abused."
2002, Iris Johansen, Body of Lies, Bantam Books (2002), →ISBN, page 158:
"Answer me. How would you feel if I was the one who might get knifed in the gullet by some scumball?"
Recently widowed and still grieving over the loss of her husband, his mother had been an easy mark for a scumball like Jacob. Playing on her weakened emotional state, within two months Jacob had sweet-talked her into marrying him.
2007, Haruki Murakami, After Dark (trans. Jay Rubin), Vintage International (2007; original Japanese novel published 2004), →ISBN, page 84:
[…] He thinks 'cause he's stronger he can beat up a woman, strip her of everything she's got, and walk away. And on top of it he doesn't pay his damn hotel bill. That's a man for you — a real scumball."
