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vermin

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vermin
small animals collectively, esp insects and rodents, that are troublesome to man, domestic animals, etc.


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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.
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