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Pestiferously

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pes·tif·er·ous  (p-stfr-s)
adj.
1.
a. Producing or breeding infectious disease.
b. Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
2. Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.
3. Bothersome; annoying.
[Middle English, from Latin pestiferus, variant of pestifer : pestis, pestilence; see pest + -fer, -fer.]
pes·tifer·ous·ly adv.
pes·tifer·ous·ness n.


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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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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