ADJECTIVE
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causing irritation or annoyance
swarms of pestering gnats
tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork
aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport
a pesky mosquito
a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him
it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong
nettlesome paperwork
a vexatious child
found it galling to have to ask permission
a plaguey newfangled safety catch
an irritating delay -
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
a pestilential malignancy in the air
plaguey fevers -
contaminated with infecting organisms
obliged to go into infected rooms
dirty wounds - tending to corrupt or pervert
How To Use pestiferous In A Sentence
- `Some of you gentlemen are lost in the pestiferous miasmas of the swamps of sin. GOODBYE CURATE
- However, this is only my revenge for much exasperation and deploration that they would never come away from their pestiferous walls, -- where, after all, they had a right to stay, and will not be blamed by the candid and unbebullet-whizzed reader that they did stay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
- 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: Abstaining from Bad Sects
- For I assure you that the horror I then conceived for those pale botanical specimens in their pestiferous and increscent abundance, exceeded what words can describe. Angels & Ministers
- The place was of the most ricketty description, and situated in the midst of filthy and pestiferous nuisances. James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1
- I was a librarian but I was the world's worst reference librarian. It was always my pleasure to tell the student to look it up for himself and not to bother me with his pestiferous inquiries.
- Editors nowadays were often surprised in their sanctums by committees of three from some pestiferous unwomanly club or other, and they had not come, alackaday, to have their handkerchiefs picked up with courtly speeches, graced with an apt quotation from "Maud. V. V.'s Eyes
- From the cave of my ignorance, amid the fogs of my dulness, and pestilential fumes of my political heresies, I look up to thee, as doth a toad through the iron-barred lucarne of a pestiferous dungeon, to the cloudless glory of The Letters of Robert Burns
- Anthropologist, which means `nasty, nosy, prying, pestiferous busybody". MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
- Here goes for a full account of my first, my last, my only _real_ sweetheart, for I considered the professions of that pestiferous jackeroo as merely a grotesque caricature on the genuine article. My Brilliant Career
