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the maggot
noun
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
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The boy continued to watch the maggot, mesmerized.
A lot of acting the maggot, as we describe acting the buffoon.
"Time to measure the maggot," she said later that same day.
Already a book called "The Maggot Was the Witness" is heading for the shelves next spring.
"You're out late," the maggot man said, as he locked up the machine.
My girlfriend, meanwhile, was determined to track down the maggot cheese.
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But on a university application that Mr. Shahzad had filled out and that was found in the maggot-covered garbage outside the Shelton house on Tuesday, he listed Karachi.
"He pent me in here with this devil flower whose seeds drifted down through the black cosmos from Yag the Accursed, and found fertile field only in the maggot-writhing corruption that seethes on the floor of hell".
The maggot-infested refugee camps, the massacres and the dictators who bludgeon children to death still exist.
It was time to step up to the biggest guns and finish the maggot-filled bastard off.
The problem is that together, both notions add up to a picture that's pretty much as rotten as the maggot-infested corpses in his movies.
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