How To Use Pestiferous In A Sentence
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Even pestiferous snow geese should be hunted with respect, not shot like rats or starlings.
Bourjaily on Goose Hunting with a Rake
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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
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In his call for a crusade, Innocent III denounced the Cathars as “pestiferous men.”
Bloodlust
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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.’
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Newly drafted in from Europe for the most part, they died like flies in the pestiferous climate.
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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
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“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
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He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh.
Chapter 41
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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.
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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
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`Some of you gentlemen are lost in the pestiferous miasmas of the swamps of sin.
GOODBYE CURATE
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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
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Anthropologist, which means `nasty, nosy, prying, pestiferous busybody".
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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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
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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
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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.
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The place was of the most ricketty description, and situated in the midst of filthy and pestiferous nuisances.
James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1
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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
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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
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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
