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plaguey

DEFINITIONS OF: plaguey

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adj causing irritation or annoyance

“a plaguey newfangled safety catch”
Synonyms:
annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing
disagreeable
not to your liking

adj likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

plaguey fevers”
Synonyms:
pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential
epidemic
(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously

adv in a disagreeable manner

“it's so plaguey cold!”
Synonyms:
plaguily, plaguy
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