Elite and Scum

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Elite

Elite noun - The highest class in a society.
Usage example: the country's elite owned or controlled most of the wealth
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Scum is an antonym for elite.
Nearby Words: elitist, elitism

Scum

Scum noun - People looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class.
Usage example: claimed that only scum lived in that part of town
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Elite is an antonym for scum.
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How words are described

fellow fellow elite fellow scum
female female elite female scum
many many elite many scum
criminal criminal elite criminal scum
Other adjectives: white, ruthless, local.

Both words in one sentence

  • Carnival of Killers Then there's the "Black Dog Knights" a not so elite group of murdering scum led by the biggest murdering scumbag of them all: Wyald.
    Source: Carnival of Killers
  • David Wingrove's Chung Kuo is an extreme example: the entire Earth is covered in a 50-story megastructure, with the elite living up top, a wretched hive of scum and villainy on the bottom, and beneath even that, the poor schlubs who actually live on the ground in utter barbarity.
    Source: Urban Segregation
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