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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- adjective Producing or breeding infectious disease.
- adjective Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
- adjective Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.
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- _Rascals and charlatans are more pernicious in this nation than highwaymen, as pestiferous and vile an infestation as weevils in good bread. — Asimov's Science Fiction
- Twilit: Small, pestiferous insect on Linyaari home planet. — Acorna's Search
- Twi Osiam - planetary site of a major financial and trade center. twilit - small, pestiferous insect on Linyaari home planet. — Acorna's Rebels
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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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— Massage
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- Middle English, from Latin pestiferus, variant of pestifer : pestis, pestilence; see pest + -fer, -fer.
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/ (pĕ-stĭfˈər-əs)/
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