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.