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vermin

General term for animals destructive of crops and game, such as rats, mice, moles, weasels, and foxes. The word is also used of the insect parasites of people, such as lice and fleas.



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- with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And the angels sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
This of all virtues, and dignities of the mind, is the greatest; being the character of the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
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