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English to English adjective
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Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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contaminated with infecting organisms | | Example: dirty wounds
obliged to go into infected rooms
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likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | | Example: a pestilential malignancy in the air
plaguey fevers
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tending to corrupt or pervert | | source: wordnet30
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causing irritation or annoyance | | Example: tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork
aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport
found it galling to have to ask permission
an irritating delay
nettlesome paperwork
a pesky mosquito
swarms of pestering gnats
a plaguey newfangled safety catch
a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him
a vexatious child
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