Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pestiferous manner; pestilentially; noxiously; malignantly; annoyingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a pestiferuos manner.
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- adverb In a
pestiferous manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy.
From Place to Place 1910
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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.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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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, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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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: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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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.
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He was thrown into a subterranean call, solitary, dark, damp, pestiferously unclean, where rheumatism racked his limbs, and where famine terminated his existence. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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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. "
Romola George Eliot 1849
yarb commented on the word pestiferously
...all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous...
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 24
July 24, 2008