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offscouring
[ awf-skouuhr-ing, -skou-er-, of- ]
noun
- Often offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- a social outcast.
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of offscouring1
Example Sentences
One might dismiss Trump’s threats as merely an offscouring of his singularly insecure and vindictive personality.
They were the despised and rejected, the wretched and the spat upon, the earth’s offscouring; and he was in their company, and they would swallow up his soul.
The offscouring of all London flocked to the Sunday services as to a public entertainment.
Thou cut-purse, thou low ruffian, terror of old women, thou offscouring of man.
His instrument of conversion is “the foolishness of preaching;” “the weak things of the earth confound the strong;” “we hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no home;” “we are reviled and bless, we are persecuted, and blasphemed, and are made the refuse of this world, and the offscouring of all things.”
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