pestiferous
adjective
spreading or bearing disease, especially deadly epidemic disease; pestilential.
pestiferously
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a word derived from
pestiferous.
Example Sentences
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Very pleasant is the sensation of being ushered into a pestiferously stablesome drawing-room.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
And ever more and more pestiferously the infernal torment of the flies increased.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
Melema, you are a pestiferously clever fellow, very much in my way, and I’m sorry to hear you’ve had another piece of good-luck to-day.”
From Romola by George Eliot
At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy.
From From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
