Crossword-Solution: PESTIFEROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pestiferous | a. | Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. |
| Pestiferous | a. | Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PESTIFEROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| miasmal | 8 answers |
| endemic | 13 answers |
| mephitic | 15 answers |
| pestilent | 24 answers |
| pestilential | 26 answers |
| inconvenient | 31 answers |
| Poisonous | 39 answers |
| putrid | 55 answers |
| festering | 55 answers |
| Deadly | 57 answers |
| baneful | 62 answers |
| infectious | 62 answers |
| Annoying | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PESTIFEROUS (5)
The one at which Longueville had taken up his abode was entered by a dark, pestiferous arch-way, surmounted by a sign which at a distance might have been read by the travellers as the Dantean injunction to renounce all hope.
And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there are no means of legal repression.
Whenever you find anywhere in nature an activity of any kind, however pestiferous its activity may seem to you--or however good--you may be sure that if you look deep enough you will find that that activity has a use, arises from a need.
And on the luster of the great calm waters the _Judea_ glided imperceptibly, enveloped in languid and unclean vapours, in a lazy cloud that drifted to leeward, light and slow: a pestiferous cloud defiling the splendour of sea and sky.
Then foul contagion filled the murky air Whose poisonous weight pressed on them in a cloud Pestiferous; as in Nesis' isle (5) the breath Of Styx rolls upwards from the mist-clad rocks; Or that fell vapour which the caves exhale From Typhon (6) raging in the depths below.
Quotes with PESTIFEROUS (3)
All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of the extinction that would ensue in a few generations if the species did not replenish itself. This is the implicit, and most pestiferous, rationale for propagation: to become fully integrated into a society, one must offer it fresh blood. Naturally, the average set of parents does not conceive of their conception as a sacrificial act. These are civil…
It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead. We have already seen that in some of its types and aspects it was inherently nothing of the sort; as when, for example, it came to be confused with the Land of the Gods. In all likelihood these separate paradises and deadlands of a nature so various were the result of the stratified beliefs of successive races dwelling in the same region. A conquering rac…
So, Mr. Mandrake, what is it you plan to do with me this evening?” I asked haughtily. “I presume,” he said, playing along, “that I will start with feeding you proper and then proceed with more…pestiferous acts.” I smiled through the confusion. I’d have to look up that word later.