pestiferous

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Some experts believe other bugs and animals — including those considered pestiferous, like rats — are thriving from secondary impacts of all that H20, like increased vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

William of Newburgh, a medieval English historian, recorded one account of a town devastated by such a monster, who was accused of filling “every house with disease and death by its pestiferous breath.”

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2021

Even before we brutally crammed them into pestiferous cages and messed with their DNA, chickens were just awesomely good at producing eggs and healthy meat.

From The Verge • Jul. 24, 2016

After the Florentine physician Francesco Redi published repeated debunkings of his work, Kircher enlisted a younger Jesuit to compose an “Apologetic Forerunner to Kircherian Studies” defending him against “the pestiferous breath of poisoned invectives.”

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2012

While the rest of the family tossed and dozed, I secretly made my way to the San Marcos River bank and enjoyed a daily interlude of no school, no pestiferous brothers, and no Mother.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly