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
ADVERB
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in a disagreeable manner
it's so plaguey cold!
How To Use plaguey In A Sentence
- a plaguey newfangled safety catch
- plaguey fevers
- Today, rare herbs and wild flowers grow on the plaguey pit, so Belfast City Council has ordered the ground left to grow wild in order to see what biological mysteries the cemetery contains.
- And at black midnight, from the lonely cross-roads where he turned from town into his own place, came his plaguey cachinnations to rouse me from my sleep and make me writhe and clench my nails into my palms. MOON-FACE
- In a gude day I gets thru four pairs, but they'm gettin 'plaguey' ard for my old fengers. The Foundations
- I need to get these assignments cleared up first, and go about getting myself a climbing partner, and see if my karate gumshield isn't too plaguey to scald and use again. Between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day
- Endless days in the saddle had worsened the plaguey effects of the old wound. Earl of Durkness
- it's so plaguey cold!
- Nameless is infuriated that Claverhouse, whose very name is hateful and ridiculous, is always happy, optimistic, cheerful, always laughing his annoying, Gargantuan, laugh ( "his plaguey cachinnations"). “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
- Without turning his back toward them he retrieved his coat from the gate-post, remembering in time that those "plaguey" suspenders had played him false that day and Alf Reesling had volunteered to "tie a knot in 'em," somewhere in the back. Anderson Crow, Detective