pestiferous的英文釋義
Adjective
1. contaminated with infecting organisms;
- dirty wounds
- obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
2. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease;
- a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift
- plaguey fevers
3. tending to corrupt or pervert
4. 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