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Definition of Pestiferously
1. adv. In a pestiferuos manner.
Definition of Pestiferously
1. Adverb. In a pestiferous manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pestiferously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestiferously
Literary usage of Pestiferously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"... you are a pestiferously clever fellow, very much in my way, and I 'm sorry to
hear you 've had another piece of good-luck to-day. ..."
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1883)
"I wish we could be furnished with Proofs of the bad Effects of this Nuisance in
New York where I am told it is pestiferously hurtful to Trade. ..."
3. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"SIR: I wish to protest against the narrowness of pestiferously "nice" people on
the use of the sense of smell by the blind-deaf, and to add the comments of ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"He was thrown into a subterranean cell, solitary, dark, damp, pestiferously
unclean, where rheumatism racked his limbs, and where famine terminated his ..."
5. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals by George Eliot (1885)
"... you are a pestiferously clever fellow, very much in my way, and I'm sorry to
hear you've had another piece of good-luck to-day. ..."
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