pestiferous

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"If they are going to run bleating to the Senate every time we try to expand, then we are better off outside the Republic and free of its endless, pestiferous rules and regulations.

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  1. adjective Producing or breeding infectious disease.
  2. adjective Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
  3. adjective Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.

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  • At last Dale said, "I draw the same conclusion as would any man of sense: that our best course is to rid ourselves of these pestiferous sims forthwith, as wolves and other vicious creatures have long been hunoed out of England." —  A different flesh
  • Twilit: Small, pestiferous insect on Linyaari home planet. —  Acorna's Search
  • "If they are going to run bleating to the Senate every time we try to expand, then we are better off outside the Republic and free of its endless, pestiferous rules and regulations. —  The Cat is a Metaphor
  • Every day his insatiable maw must be fed with the body of a young maiden, while so pestiferous is the breath which exhales from his throat that it causes a plague of a character so violent that whole districts have been depopulated by it. —  The Seven Champions of Christendom
  • \par} {\b\i\fs29\insrsid2043268\charrsid2043268 twilit} {\fs29\insrsid2043268\charrsid2043268 \emdash small, pestiferous insect on Linyaari home planet. —  Massage
 

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  1. Middle English, from Latin pestiferus, variant of pestifer : pestis, pestilence; see pest + -fer, -fer.

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  1. = Old French pestifereux (also pestifere), French pestifère = Spanish pestífero = Portuguese Italian pestifero, from Latin pestifer, rarely pestiferus, that brings plague or destruction, from pestis, plague (see pest), + ferre = English bear.
 

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/pɛsˈtɪfərəs/
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