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单词 lice-ridden
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Definition of lice-ridden in English:

lice-ridden

adjective
  • Infested with lice.

    filthy, lice-ridden cells
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The old flophouses were stinking lice-ridden hellholes with naught but chicken wire and cardboard to segregate the occupants.
    • The travelers ate heartily in the straw-thatched, lice-ridden inn, too exhausted to pay any attention to the serving girls.
    • Sara was emaciated, starving, with frostbite, lice-ridden and desperately afraid.
    • We, on the other hand, rarely washed and were lice-ridden.
    • He described the camp as so lice-ridden that the clothes appeared to move on their own.
    • She comes from a comfortable middle-class background, and her first sight of lice-ridden, emaciated boys and girls from the slums is a shock.
    • Two months later, lice-ridden and in rags, the Portuguese court arrived in Brazil.
    • His description of the lice-ridden homeless is particularly chilling.
    • Frequently, the conditions under which they must survive are deplorable and inhumane - no heat, inadequate food, insufficient beds, lice-ridden blankets, poor sanitation facilities and no exercise.
    • The uncomfortable reality of life as a soldier was more likely to be a lice-ridden existence with long, tedious hours of guard duty.
    • The horses were found emaciated and lice-ridden, standing in manure three-foot deep and unable to move.
    • I was met only by the bleak looks of my uncle, my aunt and lice-ridden sister.
    Synonyms
    lice-infested
 
 
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