louse

Initially, we can’t wait for Iacono’s louse to get eaten but we come to treasure his comic relief, particularly when Xavier wanders off to relieve himself next to a nest of velociraptors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

These people then spread south into Central America, where modern louse populations today still retain a genetic signature from their distant Asian ancestors.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023

Along our evolutionary journey from monkey-like primates to bipedal apes to big-brained humans, we have had the company of an extraordinarily loyal companion: Pediculus humanus, otherwise known as the human louse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

“We can see the louse DNA reflected in our own history.”

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023

Either that, or that particular cabdriver was an out-and-out louse.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

This suggests that immersion in hot water may interfere with lice activity or where they lay their eggs.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

They picked them up from school, held the flashlight while I checked for lice, assisted them with math homework and attended their school performances.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

Bedbugs and lice sucked us dry during the night.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

In the album’s liner notes, the band offers “special thanks from these louses to our spouses for letting us make all this racket around the houses.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

These include ensuring legal protections for endangered louses and nematodes, building parasitism into the K-12 curriculum, and getting the public not just mildly curious but “enthusiastic” about parasites.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

In layman's terms, it's a hotel for bugs, the smallest of the small—wood louses, millipedes, and anything else that could find its way in.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013

Maybe all her friends are a bunch of louses and she should cut her losses and not invite them to the wedding.

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013

The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

No 404 notice, no “your internet connection is loused up” message — and especially, no Wordle.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

Despite his job problems, he is sticking with Carter "even though he loused up the economy."

From Time Magazine Archive

What finally "loused up" Willie was a big, quiet civil servant named Elmer.

From Time Magazine Archive

One paper quoted Lana's apology: "MGM loused it up."

From Time Magazine Archive

“I should have given him a court-martial after he loused up that Ferrara mission and went around twice.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“I’m lousing up my moon picture,” Messuri said.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

“A couple of generations after I’m dead and gone,” he likes to say, “the Ph.D.’s will start lousing through my work. Just imagine their surprise. ‘

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015

Silver, who is called only Silver, perhaps because no one respects him enough to use his full name, has gone through life lousing things up.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012

Does she think he regrets lousing up their marriage?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010

Reference in Favours of the Parish of Genluce to the Presbytery of the bounds, to apply for lousing some Irish Ministers, as in the case of the Burgh of Stranrawer., &c.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly