pestiferous, adj.
causing irritation or annoyance
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annoying bothersome galling irritating nettlesome pesky pestering pestiferous plaguey plaguy teasing vexatious vexing
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"tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork""aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"
"found it galling to have to ask permission"
"an irritating delay"
"nettlesome paperwork"
"a pesky mosquito"
"swarms of pestering gnats"
"a plaguey newfangled safety catch"
"a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"
"a vexatious child"
"it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
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tending to corrupt or pervert
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corruptive perversive pestiferous
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likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
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pestiferous pestilent pestilential plaguey
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"a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift"plaguey fevers"
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contaminated with infecting organisms
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dirty pestiferous
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"dirty wounds""obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
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