Tending to corrupt or pervert.
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Examples for "pestiferous "
Examples for "pestiferous "
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 - the pestiferous draft-boards that never stopped snooping round.
5 There was only this pestiferous overlaying of shame and cowardice to be removed.
1 Bipolar and amacrine cells engage in new circuits that are most likely corruptive .
2 Now of these again there are two kinds, the innocent and the corruptive .
3 And what a non-radical, ugly, corruptive and corrosive sense it was.
4 Neither wanted to save the doughnuts from Nicodemus's corruptive influence.
5 Therefore love is a dissolvent: therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion.
1 How well those Pharaohs, Menæs, and Cheops knew man as the most perversive , destructive and evil of animals!
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