Pestiferous

Word PESTIFEROUS
Character 11
Hyphenation pes tif er ous
Pronunciations /ˌpɛsˈtɪfəɹəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Pestiferous"

What do we mean by pestiferous?

Producing or breeding infectious disease. adjective

Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease. adjective

Morally evil or deadly; pernicious. adjective

Bothersome; annoying. adjective

Plague-bearing; pestilential; infectious; contagious: as, pestiferous particles.

Noxious in any manner; mischievous; malignant; annoying.

Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious. adjective

Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive. adjective

Containing organisms that cause contagious diseases adjective

Annoying, vexatious adjective

Contaminated with infecting organisms adjective

Causing irritation or annoyance adjective

Tending to corrupt or pervert adjective

Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease adjective

Containing organisms that cause contagious diseases

Annoying, vexatious

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pestiferous

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The word "pestiferous" in example sentences

Vermont's record on the slavery issue was so strong that Georgia's legislature resolved that a ditch be dug around the "pestiferous" state and it be floated out to sea. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

In his call for a crusade, Innocent III denounced the Cathars as “pestiferous men.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even pestiferous snow geese should be hunted with respect, not shot like rats or starlings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To me this sounds like the voice of privilege complaining about how annoying it is to deal with those pestiferous people who keep pointing out how unfair the privilege is. ❋ Chip Berlet (2010)

“Let us say a bond of, oh, only a pound, because she caused some trouble to that pestiferous printer Franklin.” ❋ Bailey MacDonald (2010)

All decent and patriotic Americans can now only hope that this will reinforce the Post's image as the champion of the Watergate exposure and an example of the integrity of America's fee (oops!) press, and, moreover, that it finally stills those pestiferous agitators, single-payer advocates, peaceniks, and other such rabble-rousers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The place was of the most ricketty description, and situated in the midst of filthy and pestiferous nuisances. ❋ Steve (2009)

But as annoying and pestiferous as some insects are, they are also very essential to us, as without them large portions of the ecology would collapse. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This in turn leads to unhealthy scruples about dropping bombs on said wogs and their pestiferous children. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And don't forget those "Christofascists" who had almost completely taken over under the last Administration and how the American population was forced to go to church, praise the Lord, and carry to term those pestiferous unwanted babies. ❋ Dr. Sanity (2009)

Contagion was inevitable with such a large army closely confined in pestiferous surroundings, the comings, goings, spewings, and brawlings of thousands of men, horses, mules, and oxen trod everything into mud, and their litter and foul runoff attracted hordes of fleas and mosquitoes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I will impart to you a discovery of a far wider scope than the trifling matter that our water supply is poisoned and our medicinal Baths are standing on pestiferous soil. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately — the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the whole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The den upon which his eye now rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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