verminous

Example Sentences

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Over the years, translators have had Gregor Samsa transform into "a monstrous cockroach," "an enormous bedbug," and "a large verminous insect," among other things.

From Salon

Noticeably marked by their ethnically coded “street” accents, the hyenas blatantly symbolize racist and anti-Semitic stereotypes of “verminous” groups that form a threat to society.

From Washington Post

In the nineteen-nineties, when he was the editor of the Spectator magazine, it published a poem that referred to Scots as a “verminous race” of “tartan dwarves” who should be wiped out.

From The New Yorker

It is said he also prepared a catalogue of birds and plants, although the island's verminous blue foxes would sometimes carry off his papers or knock over his inkstand.

From Nature

THE tiny flat in northeast Washington, DC was damp and verminous but, after six months living in a hostel for the homeless, Sarah and her 10-year-old daughter loved it.

From Economist