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
- Even pestiferous snow geese should be hunted with respect, not shot like rats or starlings. Bourjaily on Goose Hunting with a Rake
- All decent and patriotic Americans can now only hope that this will reinforce the Post's image as the champion of the Watergate exposure and an example of the integrity of America's fee (oops!) press, and, moreover, that it finally stills those pestiferous agitators, single-payer advocates, peaceniks, and other such rabble-rousers. The Washington Post: Paragon of the Fee Press
- In his call for a crusade, Innocent III denounced the Cathars as “pestiferous men.” Bloodlust
- The doctor then went on to add with even further disgust, ‘the clinic has become as ubiquitous as the mosquito in a swamp and equally pestiferous.’
- Newly drafted in from Europe for the most part, they died like flies in the pestiferous climate.
- Bad enough to have that pestiferous Withington jiggling Flodge's funeral in front of his nose like a ribbon in front of a kitten. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
- “Let us say a bond of, oh, only a pound, because she caused some trouble to that pestiferous printer Franklin.” The Secret of the Sealed Room
- He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh. Chapter 41
- 1 Happy the man who did not walk by the counsel of the impious, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit down in the seat of pestiferous people.
- Vermont's record on the slavery issue was so strong that Georgia's legislature resolved that a ditch be dug around the "pestiferous" state and it be floated out to sea. The Independent Republic of Vermont