Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or caused by vermin.
- adjective Infested with vermin.
- adjective Loathsome or repulsive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to verminate, or breed vermin; affected with vermination; infested with parasitic vermin: as, verminous carrion.
- Due to the presence of vermin; caused by vermin: as, verminous ulcers. See
phthiriasis . - Of the nature of or consisting of vermin; like vermin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.
- adjective Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Infested withvermin . - adjective Actively
unpleasant ,contemptible , or otherwise reminiscent of vermin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive
Etymologies
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Examples
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The same sort of evil could be ascribed to the Nazi regime itself, which showed its own inhumanity by treating its "verminous" victims as nonhuman.
Satan Goes Secular 2010
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No sooner has the mayor announced that he has dreamed of rats than two verminous monsters appear outside his door.
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No sooner has the mayor announced that he has dreamed of rats than two verminous monsters appear outside his door.
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And I was in a verminous, overpriced apartment that periodically had no running water, surrounded by sectarian tensions, on a vague mission that I only half believed in myself.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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If Obama had waited more than a few hours to react to Haiti, you and the other verminous right-wing scumbags* would be attacking him for not reacting soon enough to a humanitarian catastrophe.
Think Progress » Beck: Obama is ‘dividing the nation’ by reacting ‘so rapidly to Haiti.’ 2010
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But these vociferous individuals and groups tend to ignore the obvious human component: Cats as pets are too integrated into our cultural fabric for us to consider their verminous eradication.
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—Jane Wellington, I am not touching this verminous creature, and I forbid you to have anything to do with her either!
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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And I was in a verminous, overpriced apartment that periodically had no running water, surrounded by sectarian tensions, on a vague mission that I only half believed in myself.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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—Jane Wellington, I am not touching this verminous creature, and I forbid you to have anything to do with her either!
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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—Jane Wellington, I am not touching this verminous creature, and I forbid you to have anything to do with her either!
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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