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Pestiferous
Pestiferous
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1.
Pestilential
;
noxious
to health;
malignant
;
infectious
;
contagious
.
2.
Noxious
to peace, to morals or to society;
mischievous
; destructive.
3.
Troublesome
;
vexatious
.
Pestiferous
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1.
Pest
-bearing;
pestilential
;
noxious
to health;
malignant
;
infectious
;
contagious
; as, pestiferous bodies.
2.
Noxious
to peace, to morals, or to society;
vicious
;
hurtful
; destructive; as, a pestiferous
demagogue
.
Pestiferously
[Adverb]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
In a pestiferuos manner.
Insalubrity
Roget’s Thesaurus §657
N.
insalubrity
,
unhealthiness
, nonnaturals, plague spot,
malaria
, death in the pot,
contagion
, toxicity
Adj.
insalubrious
, unhealthy,
unwholesome
,
noxious
,
noisome
,
morbific
, morbiferous,
mephitic
,
septic
,
azotic
,
deleterious
,
pestilent
,
pestiferous
,
pestilential
,
virulent
,
venomous
,
envenomed
, poisonous,
toxic
, toxiferous, teratogenic,
narcotic
,
contagious
,
infectious
, catching, taking,
epidemic
,
zymotic
,
epizootic
,
innutritious
,
indigestible
,
ungenial
,
uncongenial
, deadly
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