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Verminous adj.

Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin. "Some... verminous disposition of the body."

Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin; as, verminous disease.

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Etymology of 'Verminous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Verminous" Quotes from Famous Books

... broken under the advance of houses. But this is nothing, in England, to the terror one feels on the new Italian roads, where these great blind cubes of dwellings rise stark from the destroyed earth, swarming with a sort of verminous life, really verminous, ...

— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence

... consolation in that; all through Canada he had encountered younger sons, drawing-room bred young gentlemen, who worked in lumber camps, on railroads, and in mines by day, and spelt out their Horace from ragged texts by brushwood fires, beneath the stars, or in verminous shacks by night. Their power to construe a dead language served to differentiate them from their associates, and, rather foolishly if heroically, ...

— Murder Point - A Tale of Keewatin • Coningsby Dawson

... hidden coat-of-mail, his shaking hands and his painted face. The world has never seen a meaner scoundrel, and we may almost bring ourselves to pity the Kaiser, whom circumstances have forced to accept on equal terms a potentate so verminous. ...

— Raemaekers' Cartoons - With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers • Louis Raemaekers

... I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was large and fat; And one was eaten up with vice and verminous at that. ...

— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service

Words linked to "Verminous" : vermin