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Meanings of pestiferous in English
Causing irritation or annoyance.
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Examples for "pestilential"
Examples for "pestilential"
1
A thick and pestilential fog clouded the height of the vaulted dungeon.
2
To crown all, the mosquitoes were pestilential in their numbers and venom.
3
The vipers grew up, and scorched the country-side with their pestilential breath.
4
Out from the inscrutable white forest murder breathed like a pestilential air.
5
From thence foul vapors rose incessantly and spread a pestilential stench around.
1
All the air is filled with the pestilent effluvium of his nostrils.
2
And from this pestilent beginning, the other sacrilegious conceits followed on me.
3
It is this pestilent son of yours has brought you into trouble.
4
She may do most pestilent mischief if she sets this gossip going.
5
And yet the rogue is but a pestilent roundhead-themore's the pity!
Usage of pestiferous in English
1
You bury your seamen upon the pestiferous shores; and, shocking to humanity!
2
The air is pestiferous; warm and diseased, it fans us as we approach.
3
Yet the atmosphere of pestiferous fragrance had attracted, rather than repelled.
4
There was really only one drawback-thepestiferous draft-boards that never stopped snooping round.
5
There was only this pestiferous overlaying of shame and cowardice to be removed.
6
The site is badly chosen, unhealthy, and more pestiferous than Sardinia.
7
The American effort was wholehearted, but God was not found in those pestiferous regions.
8
The most pestiferous and difficult to adjust to the law of progress and advancement.
9
We must get as many of these pestiferous sectarians into the net as possible.
10
He flung them off like a lot of pestiferous puppies, and cleared the door.
11
But Ma never admitted anything pestiferous about running the store.
12
A pestiferous sanity keeps demanding of me that I translate incoherent things into words.
13
Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin stared down at the pestiferous unfortunates, which included Maxim.
14
She would not be persuaded against visitations to pestiferous hovels.
15
He was the one who coined the pestiferous nickname Jibba-Jibba.
16
He is a most pestiferous giant, with a numerous family.
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