pestiferous 的定义
- spreading or bearing disease, especially deadly epidemic disease; pestilential: pestiferous rats.
- pernicious; evil: The wicked duke's pestiferous rule blighted the countryside.
- Informal. mischievous; troublesome or annoying: Those pestiferous boys won't leave my apple tree alone.
pestiferous 近义词
annoying
更多pestiferous例句
- I shall again breathe the pestiferous air of St. Stephen's Chappel.
- No vegetables except moss and toadstool-like productions could exist in that airless and pestiferous region.
- The air, too, was close and pestiferous, as if all the foul vapours had been forced up from the inward recesses of the hold.
- The carpet bagger when not fighting the pestiferous vermin in the Chickahominy swamps was pilfering.
- It is a region of stagnant waters, pestiferous exhalations, decrepit men, famished animals.