“Wherever you go in the world, plastic bags appear as a terrible blight on the landscape.”

“Such crime is a blight on society, and every effort must be undertaken to eradicate it.”

“The crop was found to be severely infected by a blight resulting in pre-mature defoliation.”

“As far as Tom was concerned, the little blighter had got no more than his deserts.”

“And another email got quite irate about the central character, suggesting he was an evil little blighter.”

“The art of being a successful lazy blighter is to be organised, so the mess which is my reel collection box is only a mess to other people.”

“All you do is exhaust yourself, coax the little blighters back into the air where you can't get at them, and make a filthy mess.”

“The sidewalks of Manhattan are congested with the little blighters, being driven at breakneck speed by suits and freaks reliving their youth.”

“I call Mark as both of us love to watch the industrious little blighters at work.”