Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a pestiferous manner; pestilentially; noxiously; malignantly; annoyingly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a pestiferuos manner.
Examples
“After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.”
“At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy.”
“They vanish like unlawfully risen corpses in the graves of cellars and garrets, in the charnel-vaults of pestiferously-crowded lodging-houses, in the prisons of police-stations, under dry arches, within hoardings; or they make vain attempts to rest the night out upon door-steps or curbstones.”
“After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.”
“He was thrown into a subterranean call, solitary, dark, damp, pestiferously unclean, where rheumatism racked his limbs, and where famine terminated his existence. ”
“Melema, you are a pestiferously clever fellow, very much in my way, and I'm sorry to hear you've had another piece of good-luck to-day. ”
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yarb ...all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous...
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 24 Jul 23, 2008