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pestiferous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | corruptive, perversive |
pestiferous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
pestiferous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
pestiferous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dirty |
Examples of pestiferous
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Last week it did both when it looked at the pestiferous question of pornography.
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Coffee grounds also repel pestiferous cutworms but encourage beneficial earthworms.
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As voracious predators of other insects'larvae, these beetles help controlling pestiferous flies.
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Considering their daily fight to survive in the tiny prison compound in the pestiferous heart of the Mekong Delta, their condition was remarkable.
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Since bed bugs are obligate blood feeders at all post embryonic stages, insecticide-laced baits used to control pestiferous ants, cockroaches and termites are ineffective in bed bugs.
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It is sufficient unto the length of an eight-minute animated short subject that Wile E. Coyote have an inexplicable obsession with capturing a pestiferous bird.
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- Dirty: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
- Pestilent: likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
- Corruptive: tending to corrupt or pervert
- Annoying: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering ...
- Containing organisms that cause contagious diseases; annoying, vexatious
