pestiferous
adjective
- bringing or carrying disease
- Archaic infected with an epidemic disease
- dangerous to morals or to the welfare of society; noxious; evil
- Informal annoying; mischievous; bothersome
See pestiferous in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pĕ-stĭfˈər-əs)
adjectivea. Producing or breeding infectious disease.
b. Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
- Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.
- Bothersome; annoying.
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