adjective
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- nonverminous adjective
- nonverminously adverb
- nonverminousness noun
- unverminous adjective
- unverminously adverb
- unverminousness noun
- verminously adverb
- verminousness noun
Etymology
Origin of verminous
1610–20; < Latin verminōsus infested with maggots; verminate, -ous
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
Men, women and children languished there in conditions of almost unimaginable squalor, brutality, overcrowding, starvation, verminous infestation and neglect.
From New York Times
Meanwhile the verminous UK government will be carrying on their racist immigration policies, and doing their best to deport Caribbean immigrants who have spent more than 50 years legally in UK.
From New York Times
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