worm
- noun
- /wɜrm/
- Offensive
- After what she did, I can't help but see her as just a worm, unworthy of trust.
The 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 is mean and cannot be trusted
A person who lies and cannot be trusted
An unpleasant person who treats others badly or lies to them
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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An infection from drinking water with baby worms that causes painful blisters when the worm comes out
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A small parasite that lives in people and comes out through the skin causing strong pain after drinking dirty water
A small red earthworm that lives in soil, helps make soil better, and people use it as fishing bait
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A small animal that lives inside another animal and takes its food, often causing sickness
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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 thin sea animal that lives in a tube on the deep ocean floor and has tentacles
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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 long soft animal with a body made of many rings, like earthworms and leeches
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A caterpillar that moves in large groups and eats crops like grass and grain
A small caterpillar with legs only near its head and tail that moves by making a loop
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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 soft sea animal like a thin worm that stretches a long head to catch food
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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 sea worm with many body segments and small bristles on each segment
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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
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 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 small soft animal with velvety skin that catches prey with sticky slime
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A very small worm that lives in vinegar and eats tiny living things that make it turn sour
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A small, long tropical fish that lives in shallow water and hides in seagrass
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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
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.