louse

Victor was a louse in his first marriage and father of the year in his second.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

These people then spread south into Central America, where modern louse populations today still retain a genetic signature from their distant Asian ancestors.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023

“We can see the louse DNA reflected in our own history.”

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023

Only one animal parasite, the pygmy hog-sucking louse, is currently included on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, and none are included on the U.S.

From Scientific American ● May 18, 2022

Either that, or that particular cabdriver was an out-and-out louse.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

The idea is to keep out sea lice, which mostly live near the surface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

These include scabies – caused by mites, lice and bed bugs.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

The latter is transmitted by lice and produces alternating periods of fever and recovery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025

Every morning we awoke with eyelashes gunked with lice.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

In the album’s liner notes, the band offers “special thanks from these louses to our spouses for letting us make all this racket around the houses.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

These include ensuring legal protections for endangered louses and nematodes, building parasitism into the K-12 curriculum, and getting the public not just mildly curious but “enthusiastic” about parasites.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

In layman's terms, it's a hotel for bugs, the smallest of the small—wood louses, millipedes, and anything else that could find its way in.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013

Maybe all her friends are a bunch of louses and she should cut her losses and not invite them to the wedding.

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013

The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

No 404 notice, no “your internet connection is loused up” message — and especially, no Wordle.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

But she adds with pride: "Nobody ever got loused up in the Venice."

From Time Magazine Archive

National ads . . . are all loused up with overexcited, overeager, overhappy faces.

From Time Magazine Archive

In New Ulm, Minn., police forbade truckers to park livestock near churches when congregations complained that off-key moos loused up the hymns.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed she had two or three daughters, and that year they were all going to be debutantes, only she had loused up their debutante party by signing herself into the asylum.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

“I’m lousing up my moon picture,” Messuri said.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

“A couple of generations after I’m dead and gone,” he likes to say, “the Ph.D.’s will start lousing through my work. Just imagine their surprise. ‘

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015

Silver, who is called only Silver, perhaps because no one respects him enough to use his full name, has gone through life lousing things up.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012

Does she think he regrets lousing up their marriage?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010

When he gets back home, he's really going to catch hell for lousing up the works.

From The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones