| Subject | Russian | English |
| archaeol. | изучение общества по отбросам его деятельности | garbageology |
| slang | место, где встречаются отбросы общества | crib |
| gen. | низшие слои населения, отбросы общества | low-lifes (matchin) |
| law | отброс общества | forgotten man (The term "Forgotten Man" was coined by William Graham Sumner, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at Yale. The term was later redefined and used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during a campaign speech he delivered on April 7, 1932.  wikipedia.org vwv) |
| gen. | отброс общества | social misfit (Notburga) |
| gen. | отбросы общества | scum of society (Andrey Truhachev) |
| gen. | отбросы общества | dregs of society (Taras) |
| gen. | отбросы общества | the rejects (Marsha_Umansky) |
| Makarov., contempt. | отбросы общества | the great unwashed |
| Makarov. | отбросы общества | the scum of the earth |
| Makarov. | отбросы общества | the very dregs of the population |
| ed. | отбросы общества | human driftwood |
| idiom. | отбросы общества | the bottom of the heap (Mira_G) |
| fig.of.sp. | отбросы общества | human drift-wood |
| slang | отбросы общества | riff raff (Идиома. Vlad X) |
| contempt. | отбросы общества | the filth of the world (Artjaazz) |
| n.amer. | отбросы общества | white trash (Ivan Pisarev) |
| austral., jarg. | отбросы общества | talent |
| inf. | отбросы общества | lowlifes (Examples of people who are often called "lowlifes" are thieves, drug dealers, drug users, alcoholics, thugs, prostitutes and pimps. Val_Ships) |
| Makarov. | отбросы общества | the scum of society |
| Makarov. | отбросы общества | the dregs of society |
| gen. | отбросы общества | deplorables (Ivan Pisarev) |
| gen. | отбросы общества | discards of society (from Tom Sharpe's "Wilt in Nowhere" Stanislav Silinsky) |
| gen. | отбросы общества | lees of society (Andrey Truhachev) |
| gen. | отбросы общества | scum of the earth (Andrey Truhachev) |
| gen. | отбросы общества | dregs of humanity (Хемингуэй polbest) |
| Makarov. | фондовую биржу описывали как вертеп, в котором существуют отбросы общества | the Stock Exchange has been described as the cloaca bearing with it all the refuse of mankind |
