vermin

• But there is a race of starved vermin which is known by some in the north by the name of "Highland hummlies," which I consider the worst of all breeds. —  Cattle and Cattle-breeders
• Your father executed that will, and it's genuine; or the vermin--as you call him--would never have taken that line with me I daresay. —  Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
• But, if questioned, these primitive people will inform you, that the vermin are natural growths or excretions proceeding from the inside. —  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
• One was that rabbits were vermin, and that it was of no consequence how or by whom they were killed. —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
• It was visited by order of Lord Cornwallis in the year 1788, upon the complaints made against it which I have already mentioned to your Lordships,--that it was a sink of filth, vermin, and misery. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)

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