worm
- noun
- /wɜrm/
- Offensive
- After what she did, I can't help but see her as just a worm, unworthy of trust.
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Watch on YouTubeThe moral of the story is both of the characters have worms for brains.
- The moral of the story is both of the characters have worms for brains.
- Like, why would I ever interact with a worm?
Examples
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Indeed, there is no goodness in the worm.
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If we don't resolve to live like worms, the Company doesn't prosper.
Academic text (2002) -
A rank a miserable little worm like yourself could never hope to achieve.
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But she always had this saying, "The worm will turn," that she'd end her conversations with.
Fiction book (1994) -
We are mere worms, to use one phrase at a certain point.
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Everyone knew he was a worm, always sneaking around and trying to betray his friends.
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He acted like a worm, crawling back to them after they had treated him so poorly.
Synonyms
A person treated as unimportant or disgusting
A person who lies and cannot be trusted
An unpleasant person who treats others badly or lies to them
A person who is mean and cannot be trusted
An insulting name for a person thought to be very bad and not to be trusted
A person who is very unpleasant and treats others badly
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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A small parasite that lives in people and comes out through the skin causing strong pain after drinking dirty water
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A small animal that lives inside another animal and takes its food, often causing sickness
A small red earthworm that lives in soil, helps make soil better, and people use it as fishing bait
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An infection from drinking water with baby worms that causes painful blisters when the worm comes out
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A gear with a screw shaft that turns a toothed wheel to change direction and make turning slower and stronger
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A small, long tropical fish that lives in shallow water and hides in seagrass
A worm with a long body made of many ring-shaped parts like an earthworm or leech
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A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats tomato and tobacco plants
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A small sea worm that pulls its front part into its body and looks like a peanut
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A very small thin animal with a pointed body that lives in soil or inside other living things
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A caterpillar that moves in large groups and eats crops like grass and grain
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A sea worm with many body segments and small bristles on each segment
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A long soft animal with a body made of many rings, like earthworms and leeches
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A small soft animal with velvety skin that catches prey with sticky slime
A small caterpillar with legs only near its head and tail that moves by making a loop
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A thin sea animal that lives in a tube on the deep ocean floor and has tentacles
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A small thin salamander that looks like a worm and lives on the Pacific coast of the United States
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A gear that fits with a screw-shaped gear to turn movement at a right angle
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A soft sac in an animal that is filled with fluid and contains a young tapeworm
A large earthworm that comes out at night or when the ground is wet and people use for fishing
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A soft sea animal like a thin worm that stretches a long head to catch food
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A worm that lives in the sea with many small bristles on its sides that help it move
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A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats potato and tomato leaves
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A small wormlike parasite with hooks that lives inside the nose of animals like dogs or cows
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A parasite that lives in animal intestines and can pull its spiny head back to hold on
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A very small worm that lives in vinegar and eats tiny living things that make it turn sour
How Despicable
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word worm is used as an insult because people long ago compared weak or low people to the small crawling animal wyrm; the animal image gave a sense of someone contemptible and sneaky. That's why calling someone a worm means they are not worthy of respect.