1 example sentence using pestiferous.
Pestiferous used in a sentence
Pestiferous in a sentence as an adjective
Religion is a virus and islam is a particularly pestiferous strain.
Pestiferous definitions
contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
See also: dirty
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
See also: pestilent pestilential plaguey
tending to corrupt or pervert
See also: corruptive perversive
causing irritation or annoyance; "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"