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pestiferously

pestiferously adverb: in a pestiferous manner.

Adverb

pestiferously (comparative more pestiferously, superlative most pestiferously)

  1. In a pestiferous manner.
    • After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of pestiferously

comparativemore pestiferously
superlativemost pestiferously

Origin of pestiferously

From pestiferous + -ly.

Questions about pestiferously

What does pestiferously mean?
Pestiferously means in a pestiferous manner.
What part of speech is pestiferously?
Pestiferously is an adverb.

Words near pestiferously in the dictionary

  1. pesticide
  2. pesticides
  3. pestiduct
  4. pestiducts
  5. pestiferous
  6. pestiferously
  7. pestiferousness
  8. pestification
  9. pestify
  10. pestilence
  11. pestilences

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