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be lice
noun
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera.
Exact(3)
What you think may be lice or nits could be specks of dirt or dandruff.
Could it be lice?
The dust, duh, turned out to be lice.
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Ideologies are not to be loused up with the facts.
"The black pepper flecks must be louse faeces.
To be loused up by Humboldt was really a kind of privilege.
So antibiotics might turn out to be louse killers, too.
To him, illegal Palestinian workers in Israel were "lice".
In July, as minister of tourism, he suggested that Palestinians working in Israel illegally were "lice" and a "cancer".
The most satisfying sound, according to one former prisoner, was lice being crushed between two fingers, "like when you click sunflower seeds between your fingernails".
Here's another: "She had flaccid, smelly flesh and wide brown eyes; she fell asleep in my lap and there were lice in her beautiful brown hair".
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