51³Ō¹Ļ

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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.



ˈ±¹±š°ł³¾¾±²Ō“dzܲõ

/ ˈ±¹ÉœĖ³¾ÉŖ²Ōə²õ /

adjective

  1. relating to, infested with, or suggestive of vermin

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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • verminously adverb
  • verminousness noun
  • nonverminous adjective
  • nonverminously adverb
  • nonverminousness noun
  • unverminous adjective
  • unverminously adverb
  • unverminousness noun
  • ˈ±¹±š°ł³¾¾±²Ō“dzܲõly adverb
  • ˈ±¹±š°ł³¾¾±²Ō“dzܲõness noun
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of verminous1

1610–20; < Latin ±¹±š°ł³¾¾±²Ōō²õ³Ü²õ infested with maggots; verminate, -ous
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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 ā€œstreetā€ accents, the hyenas blatantly symbolize racist and anti-Semitic stereotypes of ā€œverminousā€ 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 ā€œverminous raceā€ of ā€œtartan dwarvesā€ 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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