adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

adj. covered with or resembling slime; "a slimy substance covered the rocks"

adj. coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets"

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

adj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

adj. despicably mean and cowardly

adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

adj. despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

adj. known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"

adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

adj. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

adj. lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"

adj. devoid of importance, meaning, or force

adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"

adj. resembling a cur; snarling and rude

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

adj. infested with grubs

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"

adj. infested with bugs

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

adj. foul with waste matter

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"

adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"