offscourings
Britishplural noun
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But the syndicated Press omit to record that only a miserable handful paraded the streets, the offscourings of the city's purlieus, amid the derision of the onlookers.
From Victory out of Ruin by Norman Maclean
All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.
From Gold by Stewart Edward White
In all probability, therefore, the ḫabati were wandering hordes differing from the Sutites in not having any special nationality, and being composed of the offscourings of many peoples of the ancient East.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
It was not so easy to fill the empty berth in the forecastle, even from the offscourings of the docks.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
Were they not sectaries, fanatics, visionaries, the very offscourings of human nature?
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by George Henry Borrow
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