scabs

noun

plural of scab
as in wretches

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scabs
  1. wretches
  2. scoundrels
  3. roughnecks
  4. villains
  5. miscreants
  6. nuts
  7. rascals
  8. boobies
Noun
  • The first time, Julian’s children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) seemed like miserable, greedy wretches.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
Definition of wretches
Noun
  • New Orleans has long been notorious for embracing such scoundrels, a reputation that isn’t exactly helped by the fact that, for many years, disgraced attorneys who lost their licenses in Louisiana and applied for readmission to the bar often got it.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Political leaders who encourage or tolerate such scoundrels should be driven from office.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of scoundrels
Noun
  • The show focuses on roughnecks and billionaires in West Texas who are trying to get rich as the oil industry continues to take over the state.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • But this is a look at the more dynamic version, like the roughnecks out in the patch and the offices in Dallas and Fort Worth.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
Definition of roughnecks
Noun
  • After all, the best myths take our normal heroes-and-villains binary and punt it into a million pieces.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
  • Maybe America was too busy wrestling with its own history of siding with the most despicable villains around?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 July 2026
Definition of villains
Noun
  • The frenetic antics of Illumination‘s mascot army of yellow miscreants have always been indebted to vintage slapstick.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 June 2026
  • Elswyth can shoot ivy vines from her hands, wrapping the vines around miscreants to incapacitate them.
    — Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 15 May 2026
Definition of miscreants
Noun
  • Granola One of the original ‘health foods,’ granola contains many nutritious ingredients, such as oats, nuts, and seeds.
    — Sarah Anzlovar, Verywell Health, 4 July 2026
  • California's Central Valley, stretching some 20,000 square miles (51,800 square kilometers), is an agricultural powerhouse that's estimated to produce 40% of the nation's fruits, nuts and other table foods, including most of its nectarines.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Definition of nuts
Noun
  • Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Definition of rascals
Noun
  • Yet that rawness is exactly why the landscape is teeming with sea lions, marine iguanas, and blue-footed boobies.
    — Carla Vianna, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Northern itineraries bring guests closer to red-footed boobies and alternate habitats.
    — David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
Definition of boobies
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

scabrous
scabs
scads
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Scabs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scabs. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

Copy Citation

More from Merriam-Webster on scabs

Nglish: Translation of scabs for Spanish Speakers

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

Commonly Misspelled Words

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List

One-Word Oxymorons: Bittersweet, Spendthrift, and More

Ten Words Ending with a Silent ‘T’

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
hangman letters and game
Hangman Lightning Round Figure out which word fits in the blanks.
See All