louse

We get hints that Paul’s previous self was a louse, but Holland’s smile is so soft that it’s hard to believe he was ever a nasty, selfish jerk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

A genetic analysis based on louse DNA revealed the existence of two distinct clusters of lice that rarely interbred.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023

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

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023

Odenkirk, in particular, is willing to go full louse.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

Then she crushed the flea or louse between her nails.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

This suggests that immersion in hot water may interfere with lice activity or where they lay their eggs.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

She sees many children in her class who she thinks would probably be better off at home: “Kids with a lot of green and yellow mucus. We’ve had kids with active lice in school.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

With no shampoo or soap, it is a constant battle to keep myself clean, and as a result, my hair clumps together in greasy knots, which makes it hard for me to catch the lice.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

Despite his job problems, he is sticking with Carter "even though he loused up the economy."

From Time Magazine Archive

If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Billy had the world by the fine hair, and he has loused it up," Young wrote with consistent, if unappealing imagery.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I should have given him a court-martial after he loused up that Ferrara mission and went around twice.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“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

You are unsatisfied with it, because—uh—your peculiar talent is lousing up your profession.

From The Animated Pinup by Lewis Parker