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Plaguey

adjective

Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential. "Plaguey fevers"

Causing irritation or annoyance. Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing. "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"

adverb

In a disagreeable manner. Synonyms: plaguily, plaguy.

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... Pringle, with a hearty execration, as he wiped his face with the back of his hand; "saving your presence, doctor, we are masters of the field, doctor; but it's plaguey like capturing an empty ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... call losing your morale," he said; "if you lose that—go-od night! Suppose General Joffre said that when the Huns werre hitting it forr Paris! S'pose I said that when my foot stuck in the mud on the bottom of this plaguey riverr!" ...

— Tom Slade with the Boys Over There • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... "They're those plaguey geese of Al Peck's!" exclaimed Nat, as one of the birds stretched out its long neck at his approach and uttered a ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various

... will burst upon me, and I expect it will be something quite obvious. The shadow of history hangs over it all. Six hundred years ago, in the velvet dusk of a summer night, Sir John Froissart galloped this way, by plaguey bad roads, and he beguiled the tedium of his journey by making an excellent new pastourelle. But you will hear no echo of this delicious song to-day: that lies buried for ever in the yellow mists of the MS. Room at the British Museum. Motor-'buses will ...

— Nights in London • Thomas Burke

... could he help it, seemingly," she answered. "Any way he swore he was driven to speak. In fact he have had the thing in his prayers for a fortnight. 'Tis a most ondacent, plaguey prank for love to play; for surely at our time of life, we ought to be dead ...

— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts

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