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Main Entry:	cad [kad] Show IPA/kæd/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	sly, dastardly person
Synonyms:	boor, bounder, clown, creep, cur, dog, heel, louse, lout, rake, rascal, rat, rotter, rounder, scoundrel, stinker, worm*
Antonyms:	gentleman, helper

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	crawl
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	move very slowly
Synonyms:	clamber, creep, drag, drag oneself along, go on all fours, go on belly, grovel, hang back, inch, lag, loiter along, lollygag, move at snail's pace, move on hands and knees, plod, poke, pull oneself along, scrabble, slide, slither, squirm, worm, wriggle, writhe

Main Entry:	creep
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	crawl along, usually on ground
Synonyms:	approach unnoticed, crawl on all fours, edge, glide, grovel, gumshoe, inch, insinuate, lurk, pussyfoot, scrabble, scramble, skulk, slink, slither, snake, sneak, squirm, steal, tiptoe, worm*, wriggle, writhe

* = informal/non-formal usage

Example Sentences

The perfect urban pet is not the dog or the cat, but the lowly worm.

Fear believes that the early worm gets caught by the bird, and sympathizes with the worm's regret at being punctual.

The bird catches the earliest, worm, serves the worm for being so early.

The perfect urban pet is not the dog or the cat, but the lowly worm.

Fear believes that the early worm gets caught by the bird, and sympathizes with the worm's regret at being punctual.

The bird catches the earliest, worm, serves the worm for being so early.

Cover your worm bin with a tarp or plastic sheeting to retain moisture and keep out light.

Worm study fingers gene that links dietary restriction to increased lifespan.

In an aquatic environment, the worm can find a mate and reproduce.

For gardeners with no room for a traditional compost pile or bin, worm composting is a solution.

If you take one part gross, a bit of green and a pinch of functionality you are likely to end up with worm farming.

It may not rank as one of the great scientific mysteries of all time, but the riddle of worm grunting has been solved, apparently.

During his extreme weight loss, he admits, the sight of a robin pulling a worm from the ground made him envious.

Microscopic guinea worm eggs enter humans via water fleas, swallowed when drinking dirty water.

The finding raises the question of how the worm survives such extreme heat.

Of course, another option would be to make the compost indoors using a worm bin.

The animals are pretty weird, but also beautiful such as the scale worm pictured above.

If there is a worm in the fluid it is drawn towards the hole and held in place by the suction.

Vermicomposting, or worm composting, is an efficient way to turn kitchen scraps into rich nutrients for your veggie patch.

If a worm is detected, it can be removed from the message.

It isn't, of course, it's more akin to force feeding someone who's got a tape worm.

Vegetable and fruit scraps go into a worm compost box that can sit right in the kitchen.

We have only about twice as many genes as a worm or fly¿far fewer than anyone guessed.

Worm castings can serve as potting soil or soil amendments for indoor and outdoor plants.

Squiggly worm burrows, excavated within a slimy seabed, lace steel-gray limestone.

Worm composting is a way to put food waste to good use by feeding it to about a thousand worms.

Both new species belong to a little-known group of known as thread snakes-also called worm snakes and slender blind snakes.

When a peanut worm is threatened, it hides its head.

Bone glue created from adhesive produced by underwater worm.

Researchers thought the translucent worm with the pink.

The peanut worm has a proboscis that resembles an elephant's trunk, as well as a mouth that.

The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses.

Of course, the entire concept of being infected by a brain worm is only theoretically thrilling.

Each hole is the entrance to a separate tube, built one upon another by worm after worm.

When a captured worm is detected the suction on the hole is released.

The children of women with untreated worm infections while pregnant had fewer cases of eczema, lending further credence to the.

Four of six lizards tested were able to figure out ways to get to a freshly killed worm larva placed under a disc.

It's not every day that a disease disappears, but guinea worm disease may be next, after smallpox.

Worm said a number of steps could help turn things around.

The worm causes liver damage that the body's natural mechanisms must repair.

Scientists are crafting arteries, ligaments, circuitry and holograms from worm yarn.

He sells various kinds of worms for fishing, usually buying them from other worm dealers.

The worm is a parasite, a plant or animal that lives off of other creatures.

Through genetic manipulation, scientists have extended the lifespan of a microscopic worm more than six-fold.

The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks.

Instead of buying a fancy model at the garden center, you can make a worm composter from a plain plastic bin.

The tug-of-war drama between bird and worm is a sight often seen in various places and times.

Leifer and colleagues describe how they manipulated a tiny, free-swimming worm using only light.

They will discover some sand worm that need protecting and the project will die on the drawing table.

The velvet worm creeps along the floors of tropical forests on nearly identical pad-shaped legs.

The old joke goes that the only thing worse than finding a worm in an apple is finding half a worm.

Intrusive memories and spiraling pessimism worm their way into every moment of consciousness.

The worm also has a blue head which includes incredibly hard jaws or teeth depending on what you want to call them.

NO worm holes, naked singularities or other complexities.

Take a carterpillar and oberve son evoltionA foliage eating worm evolves to a honey drinking flying.

The mood then switches to one more curious and the character can see she's having a hard time getting a worm on her hook.

Main Entry:	cur
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	rotten, lowly animate being
Synonyms:	black sheep, blackguard, bum, cad, coward, dog, good-for-nothing, heel, hound, ne'er-do-well, rat, riffraff, scoundrel, scum, skunk, snake, stinker, toad, villain, worm*, wretch, yellow dog

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	edge
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	defeat narrowly
Synonyms:	creep, ease, inch, infiltrate, nose out, sidle, slip by, slip past, squeeze by, squeeze past, steal, worm
Antonyms:	lose, wallop

Main Entry:	grub
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	larva
Synonyms:	caterpillar, centipede, entozoon, maggot, worm

Main Entry:	sneak
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	move stealthily
Synonyms:	ambush, case, cheat, cower, crawl, creep, deceive, delude, evade, glide, gumshoe, hide, lurk, mooch, move secretly, ooze, pad, pass, prowl, pussyfoot, secrete, shirk, sidle, skulk, slide, slink, slip, slither, sly, smuggle, snake, snook, spirit, steal, worm

Main Entry:	squirm
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	wiggle, fidget
Synonyms:	agonize, flounder, shift, skew, squiggle, toss, twist, wind, worm, wriggle, writhe
Antonyms:	sit still

Main Entry:	wheedle
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	talk into
Synonyms:	banter, blandish, butter up, cajole, charm, coax, con, court, draw, entice, finagle, flatter, inveigle, kowtow, lay it on, oil, persuade, seduce, snow, soap, soft-soap, soften up, spread it on, sweet-talk, sweeten up, work on, worm*

* = informal/non-formal usage
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