Definitions for "Pestiferous"
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
tending to corrupt or pervert