Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a verminous manner, or to a verminous degree; so as to breed worms; as if infested by worms: as, verminously unclean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a verminous manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
verminous way.
Etymologies
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verminous + -ly
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Examples
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Elysian Fields; the omnibus that bore us westward was a chariot of glory; and the people who swarmed verminously on the pavements bore the semblance of the children of light.
The Eye of Osiris 1902
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