Plaguey

In a gude day I gets thru four pairs, but they'm gettin 'plaguey' ard for my old fengers. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

Without turning his back toward them he retrieved his coat from the gate-post, remembering in time that those "plaguey" suspenders had played him false that day and Alf Reesling had volunteered to "tie a knot in 'em," somewhere in the back. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

Endless days in the saddle had worsened the plaguey effects of the old wound. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

And at black midnight, from the lonely cross-roads where he turned from town into his own place, came his plaguey cachinnations to rouse me from my sleep and make me writhe and clench my nails into my palms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was a curious thing, but he found that he was actually concerned about the safety of the plaguey nuisances. ❋ KAREN ROBARDS (2010)

Nameless is infuriated that Claverhouse, whose very name is hateful and ridiculous, is always happy, optimistic, cheerful, always laughing his annoying, Gargantuan, laugh ( "his plaguey cachinnations"). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Making religious plagues out of common local phenomenon is not very plaguey. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I need to get these assignments cleared up first, and go about getting myself a climbing partner, and see if my karate gumshield isn't too plaguey to scald and use again. ❋ Hawkwing_lb (2008)

Wit and Spirit; they make charming Mistresses, but plaguey Wives. — — Betty ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is a plaguey dull sort of a place for a man to be sitting by himself in. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We were always starved for sweets, on account of it being so plaguey cold and never really able to get properly warm except during summer. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

He had almost clean forgotten the plaguey affair: it had its roots in the dark days before his marriage. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sure enough, it looked like another plaguey lot of mere hu'mans! ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)