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flea-ridden

a. 1 infested with fleas. 2 mangy; filthy. alt. 1 infested with fleas. 2 mangy; filthy.

Usage examples of "flea-ridden".

It sounded a trifle more impressive than my current surroundings, which featured several soldiers playing at chuck-a-luck on the floor, a flea-ridden mongrel asleep by the fire, and a strong smell of hops.

And Kivrin was asleep, too, in a flea-ridden bed seven hundred years away.

And their bed was nothing but a pile of flea-ridden straw with a tattered old greasy cloak thrown over it.

No one was going to get him on one of those ugly, badtempered, flea-ridden things unless it was a matter of life and death.