pestiferous / pɛˈstɪf ər əs /

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pestiferous 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. spreading or bearing disease, especially deadly epidemic disease; pestilential: pestiferous rats.
  2. pernicious; evil: The wicked duke's pestiferous rule blighted the countryside.
  3. Informal. mischievous; troublesome or annoying: Those pestiferous boys won't leave my apple tree alone.

pestiferous 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

annoying

更多pestiferous例句

  1. I shall again breathe the pestiferous air of St. Stephen's Chappel.
  2. No vegetables except moss and toadstool-like productions could exist in that airless and pestiferous region.
  3. The air, too, was close and pestiferous, as if all the foul vapours had been forced up from the inward recesses of the hold.
  4. The carpet bagger when not fighting the pestiferous vermin in the Chickahominy swamps was pilfering.
  5. It is a region of stagnant waters, pestiferous exhalations, decrepit men, famished animals.