Word: verminous
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...fellow who has written these things about his own college, he probably knows no better, and therefore deserves pity, not scorn and loathing. He probably is some wretched, half-witted being, living in a very musty and unclean garret, tenanted by vermin, who scribbles to order, that he may keep his miserable anatomy alive. He would slander his own grandmother at five dollars a column. Therefore, gentle reader, though you may be inclined to revile him bitterly, - don't; he knows no better. "It's his conception of the part." and he means no offence...