pestiferous
spreading or bearing disease, especially deadly epidemic disease; pestilential: pestiferous rats.
pernicious; evil: The wicked duke's pestiferous rule blighted the countryside.
Informal. mischievous; troublesome or annoying: Those pestiferous boys won't leave my apple tree alone.
Origin of pestiferous
1Other words from pestiferous
- pes·tif·er·ous·ly, adverb
- pes·tif·er·ous·ness, noun
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How to use pestiferous in a sentence
At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. CobbVery pleasant is the sensation of being ushered into a pestiferously stablesome drawing-room.
From Sea to Sea | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for pestiferous
/ (pɛˈstɪfərəs) /
informal troublesome; irritating
breeding, carrying, or spreading infectious disease
corrupting; pernicious
Origin of pestiferous
1Derived forms of pestiferous
- pestiferously, adverb
- pestiferousness, noun
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