verminlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

vermin +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

verminlike (comparative more verminlike, superlative most verminlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of vermin.
    • 2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page 170:
      For good reason military leaders attempt to instill in their troops beliefs about the nonhumanity—the bestiality or animality or verminlike character—of the enemy.
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