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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the vermin" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to pests or undesirable people in a derogatory manner. Example: "The city has been struggling to control the population of the vermin that infest the abandoned buildings."
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the vermin
noun
Any one of various common types of small insects or animals which cause harm and annoyance.
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Some visitors even claimed to miss the vermin and litter.
In 2016, the vermin control argument is also becoming silly.
He said the vermin were at the site before the tents went up.
"I came in to clean the vermin out, then I'll leave.
So how do you take up arms against the vermin in your home?
He didn't know they had put poison on it to keep out the vermin".
And the vermin are, well, vicious vermin with a penchant for attacking Redwall.
"I need to not have to worry about the plumbing and the vermin," she said.
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They also offer an alternative to the shoot-the-vermin solution: not traps, not poison.
Imagining the existing order's overthrow gives the film sometimes a Buñuelian, or Magrittean surrealist tinge, as the ship's doctor peers at the vermin-infested meat through his spectacles and declares: "These are not worms!
This was not the vermin-infested, rotting, greasy slum that some patients were assigned outside Walter Reed, in a scandal uncovered in 2007 by the Washington Post.
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