Pestiferous
Pestiferous , adjective
[Latin pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + ferre to bear: compare French pestifère.]
1.
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms.
Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations.
2.
Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held.