worm in the apple
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The worms in the apple, of course, are Baby Boom liberals who latched on to the one institution they could control—the university."
- "In this witty satire Cheever, acting as both narrator and observer, seeks to find the Crutchman's fatal flaw, the “worm in the apple” that will bring them down to the level of everyone else."
- "The villain of this piece—the worm in the apple of Revolutionary antislavery—was white racism."