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Перевод: pestiferous

[прилагательное]
распространяющий заразу; вредный; опасный; зловонный; надоедливый; докучливый

Тезаурус:

1. They walked up Holborn, across the darkening common which stretched out before the old city walls, into the pestiferous area around Newgate and down towards Cheapside.
2. "Partly as a result of excessive leniency," he went on in a familiar line of argument, "there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable to whom they have become a terror."
3. To make them pure for drinking purposes is, perhaps, impossible; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers.
4. The editors proudly proclaim their effort as the birth of applied myrmecology, a subject that deals with the voluminous literature on pestiferous ants and attempts to bring together authorities on problem species in a modern forum.
5. Moreover, when Dickens alludes in Bleak House to "a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed", he is not being metaphorical.
6. "the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, where malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate - here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two: here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside."