pestiferous

Speech parts

1. pestiferous - Adjective

2. pestiferous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.

Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pestilent pesky dirty annoying irritating teasing galling bothersome pestering vexatious vexing pestilential corruptive plaguy perversive
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Antonyms

beneficent good medical healthy convenient beneficial
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Related terms

pest pestilent

Anagrams

septiferous

Examples

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. Henrik Ibsen

We believe in marriage for life, and deprecate all this loose, pestiferous talk in favor of easy divorce... Be not deceived - free love means free lust. Lucy Stone

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that. Pliny the Elder

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aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport Source: Internet

found it galling to have to ask permission Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pesticide poisoning pesticide-free milk pestiduct pestiferously pestiferousness pestification