vermicular

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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is this vermicular insignificance of the gossip that makes his detection so difficult, and gives him his security.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard

There is no telling how vermicular are the wrigglings of mean souls.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

On the skin immediately adjacent to them being pressed with the finger nails, these bits of coagulated lymph will come from it in a vermicular form.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.

From Demos by Gissing, George