cootie

Example Sentences

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Gays being seen as essentially having cooties is very on the nose here.

From Salon

Higgins, who works in health care and risks covid-19 exposure on the job, sought out activities that give her dedicated time for herself and “not expose other people to all my cooties,” she says.

From Washington Post

It was as if the border wall and its accompanying rhetoric had made people treat immigrants like they had cooties, lest they be seen treating the enemy kindly.

From Salon

Alexander said he does not believe that facial coverings that are not hospital-grade masks fully filter out “coronavirus cooties” and that people’s immune systems are designed to fight illness.

From Los Angeles Times

And then they would run screaming that they needed to wash their hands because I had given them cooties.

From Washington Post