shitass

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shitass

rude slang A despicable, loathsome, or contemptible person. I know I've been a real shitass lately, but I want to try to make it up to you somehow. A: "And then she used the money from the donations to pay for a weekend in Las Vegas." B: "Wow, what a shitass!"

shit-ass

rude slang Utterly awful, despicable, loathsome, or contemptible. Between losing my job and being left by my wife, this has been a real shit-ass week, you know? I can't wait to get out of this shit-ass town.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

shit-ass

1. n. a disgusting and wretched person. (Rude and derogatory.) The guy’s a shit-ass. What’re you gonna do?
2. mod. pertaining to someone or something disgusting and wretched. (Usually objectionable.) He’s nothing but a shit-ass bastard!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • shitasses
  • shitbox
  • shitstick
  • stinkpot
  • rat
  • rats
  • the lowdown on
References in periodicals archive
"I know it's just a bunch of shitass words, excuse the expression" (162): But listen, Annie, I never stopped lovin' you and the kinds, and especially you, and that don't entitle me to nothin', and I don't want nothin' for sayin' it, but I went my whole life rememberin' things here that were like nothin' I ever saw anywhere in Georgia or Louisiana or Michigan, and I been all over, Annie, all over, and there ain't nothin' in the world like your elbows sittin' there on the table across from me, and that apron all full of stains.
Francis Phelan in purgatory: William Kennedy's Catholic imagination in Ironweed
In Baker's recollection it was Bobby, not Jack, whom Johnson denounced as "that little shitass" and a score of epithets more coarse.
LBJ vs. RFK: a case of mutual contempt
I have driven my truck instead of my wife's Toyota to make a good impression (a man in hogs and logs who at six seven might weigh 700 pounds might be a giant redneck shitass), and now I have to try to shake hands with this pile of man on the floor in order to keep making a good impression.
Grappling with a giant
"tardily determined" that poetry "not only seeks silence, it aspires to silence." Now that she has joined this silence, we upside-down shitasses must take solace from the great body of work that she left us on the way there.
"Poetry is a necessity of life": in memoriam C. D. Wright (1949-2016)