verminous• He was a bullet-headed child whose shavenhair showed that he had recently been sent to the cleansingstation as verminous.• It was known that many of them had sympathy with Mosley and his verminousbunch.• Gleeson opened one verminous eye and he looked quickly away.• And the ragamuffinkids: unwashed kids, hungry kids, artful kids, verminous kids, nice kids and unholyterrors.• There was a handful of verminous women, too, and even a few sickly children.