plaguesome
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of plaguesome
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald.
From Time Magazine Archive
As if I had not got my hands too full already, now I am in for another plaguesome business, which will cost a lot of money, instead of bringing money in.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
For although she was not given, any more than other young people are, to plaguesome self-inspection, she could not help feeling that she was no longer the playful young Dolly that she loved so well.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Therefore he spurred his willing horse against the hill, and up the many-winding ruggedness of road, hoping, at every turn, to descry in the distance the vehicle carrying that very plaguesome box.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Instead of getting steadier, he grows more plaguesome.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
