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  • noun Plural form of cockroach.

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Examples

  • Victims of the Rwandan genocide were called "cockroaches" by its perpetrators.

    Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011

  • Victims of the Rwandan genocide were called "cockroaches" by its perpetrators.

    Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011

  • His career also has afforded him the opportunity to meet President Obama, fly in a blimp over New York City and have exposure to a wildlife, which Romero says "for a city boy who grew up with cockroaches is pretty unbelievable."

    Alex Romero: A steward for national parks in the D.C., Maryland region The Partnership for Public Service 2010

  • Those who bring in cockroaches after the 1,000 are already collected receive passes to the new exhibition hall.

    Sell Your Cockroaches to Houston Museum | Impact Lab 2007

  • The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2005 that a speech Mugesera made in Rwanda in 1992 was a crime against humanity by inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis, who he referred to cockroaches and said should be exterminated

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • The NSA leakers are next, they gleefully proclaim, followed by the whole parade of nefarious, traitorous "cockroaches" -- including reporters -- who have leaked and/or published information that resulted in embarrassment to The Commander-in-Chief in this Time of War.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • The NSA leakers are next, they gleefully proclaim, followed by the whole parade of nefarious, traitorous "cockroaches" -- including reporters -- who have leaked and/or published information that resulted in embarrassment to The Commander-in-Chief in this Time of War.

    Selectively punishing politically damaging leaks Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were systematically slaughtered in an organised campaign to rid the country of what the Hutu supremacist government termed the 'cockroaches' - and while genocide was pursued, the international community stood by and did nothing to stop the violence.

    Videos (RSS 2.0) 2009

  • “I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies,” she says … 8.

    What Are 100 Things You Learned This Year You Didn’t Know Last Year? « Lorelle on WordPress 2006

  • Just as the Tutsis were described as cockroaches and snakes, both Hamas and the PA have described Jews as loathsome and dangerous animals, including cockroaches, spiders, scorpions and alligators.

    The move towards genocide... GayandRight 2009

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