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louse

[lous, lous, louz] / laʊs, laʊs, laʊz /
NOUN
bad person
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Victor was a louse in his first marriage and father of the year in his second.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

The human louse is a wingless, blood-sucking parasite that lives its entire life on its host.

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

The lion grunted and lay still while the hare pretended to search for another louse.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith




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