Synonyms:
vermin
Meaning: any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats; "cereals must be protected from mice and other vermin"; "he examined the child's head for vermin"; "boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin"
Synonyms:
vermin, varmint
Meaning: an irritating or obnoxious person
Usage examples
Vermin revel in filth, and their extirpation depends mainly on cleanliness.
Vermin crawled over the floors, over the walls and over the bodies of the helpless men.
"Once a fortnight is often enough to wash any dog but a white one. Washing has very little effect in the destruction of vermin.
And according to that the gentleman has good reason to say he would rather be a labouring man than a king, if vermin are to eat him."
Are they not invariably devouring and destroying some vermin a little smaller than themselves, and making thus a healthier atmosphere for their betters?
Huddled together in damp and filthy prisons, crawling with vermin, covered with sores and ulcers, brawling, blaspheming and fighting, the galley slaves made a picture suggestive only of Hell.
With his own gentle charity he performed the lowest offices for these poor wretches to whom his heart went out with such an ardent pity; he cleansed them from the vermin which infested them and dressed their neglected sores.
By what law of God or man can a man be bound to maintain a parcel of injurious vermin on his property, in the pursuit of which he finds no sport himself, and which are highly detrimental to another sport in which he takes, perhaps, the keenest interest?