plaguy

  • 61Difficulty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Difficulty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 difficulty difficulty Sgm: N 1 hardness hardness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 impracticability impracticability &c.(impossibility) 471 Sgm: N 1 tough work tough work hard work uphil …

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  • 62Painfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Capability of giving pain PARAG:Painfulness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 painfulness painfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 trouble trouble care &c.(pain) 828 Sgm: N 1 trial trial Sgm: N 1 affliction affliction infliction …

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  • 63pesky — 1775, originally in New England dialect, perhaps a dial. formation from pest (Cf. plaguy confounded, annoying, disagreeable ). Partridge suggests an origin in Essex dialect …

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  • 64cursed — a. 1. Accursed, blighted, banned, curseladen. 2. Detestable, hateful, abominable, execrable, villanous. 3. Scourging, plaguing, tormenting, annoying, troublesome, vexatious, confounded (colloq.), plaguy (colloq.) …

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  • 65annoying — adj 1. bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, vexatious; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Dial. plaguy; hectoring, harassing, hounding, dogging, nagging, tormenting. 2. nettlesome, nettling, irritating,… …

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  • 66infectious — adj 1. communicable, contagious, catching, spreading, infective, transmissible, transferable. 2. pestilent, baneful, malign, pestiferous, morbific, morbiferous; noisome, Dial. plaguy, germ laden, zymotic, inoculable; poisonous, venomous, deadly,… …

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  • 67irksome — adj irritating, annoying, vexing, vexatious, Inf. aggravating; bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, hectoring, harassing; troubling, troublesome, distressing, painful; worrying, worrisome, Archaic. plaguy; tiring, tiresome,… …

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  • 68irritating — adj 1. provoking, agitating, inflaming, inflammatory, enflaming, kindling; inciting, igniting, instigating. 2. angering, incensing, irksome, irking; maddening, infuriating, enraging; exacerbating, rankling, galling, embittering. 3. nettlesome,… …

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  • 69unpleasant — adj 1. displeasing, annoying, irritating, irksome, bothersome, vexatious, provoking; pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous; troublesome, rough, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Dial. plaguy; nettlesome, nettling, Inf. aggravating,… …

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  • 70vexatious — adj 1. bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, hectoring, harassing; hounding, dogging, nagging, tormenting, persecuting; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Archaic, except Dial. plaguy. 2. irritating,… …

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