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verminous

[ vur-muh-nuhs ]

adjective

  1. of the nature of or resembling vermin.
  2. of, relating to, or caused by vermin:

    verminous diseases.

  3. infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin:

    verminous shacks.



ˈԴdzܲ

/ ˈɜːɪə /

adjective

  1. relating to, infested with, or suggestive of vermin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԴdzܲly, adverb
  • ˈԴdzܲness, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • m·dzܲ· adverb
  • m·dzܲ·Ա noun
  • ԴDz·m·dzܲ adjective
  • non·m·dzܲ· adverb
  • non·m·dzܲ·Ա noun
  • ܲ·m·dzܲ adjective
  • un·m·dzܲ· adverb
  • un·m·dzܲ·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of verminous1

1610–20; < Latin ōܲ infested with maggots; verminate, -ous
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Men, women and children languished there in conditions of almost unimaginable squalor, brutality, overcrowding, starvation, verminous infestation and neglect.

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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.

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