"infestuous" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more infestuous [comparative], most infestuous [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin infestus. See infest (adjective). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|infestus}} Latin infestus Head templates: {{en-adj}} infestuous (comparative more infestuous, superlative most infestuous)
  1. Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.
    Sense id: en-infestuous-en-adj-8TH3CBUo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "1593, Thomas Nashe, Christs Teares over Jerusalem, London: Andrewe Wise, Ronald B. McKerrow (editor), The Works of Thomas Nashe, London: A.H. Bullen, 1904, Volume 2, p. 69,\nThe Store-houses burnt, the siege harde plyed, the waste of victuals great, the husbanding of them none at all, there fell such an infestuous unsaciable famine amongst them, that if all the stones of Jerusalem had been bread, and they should have tyred on them, yet woulde they have beene behind hand with their appetite."
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          "text": "1919, Frederick Palmer, Our Greatest Battle (The Meuse-Argonne), New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., Chapter 11, p. 185,\nBoth division reports speak of having taken Varennes, which is well spread on the river banks. There was room enough for the troops of both to operate, with plenty of work for both to do before their common efforts had cleared the ruins of their infestuous occupants."
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          "text": "1996, Jim Wright, Balance of Power: Presidents and Congress from the Era of McCarthy to the Age of Gingrich, Turner Publications, p. 308,\nThe PLO, egged on by Khadafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq, became an infestuous thorn in Jordanian King Hussein’s side, and virtually overran Lebanon."
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