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Troublesome. Morally harmful or injurious.

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Usage examples (14)
  • "I dunno," said the plaguesome boy, looking at the address covertly.
  • "Permit me to warn you, brother mine, that this wooing business is definitely plaguesome."
  • The lawyer took good care to speak to none but his principals concerning that plaguesome deed of appointment.
  • Therefore he spurred his willing horse against the hill, and up the many-winding ruggedness of road, hoping, at every turn, to descry in the distance the vehicle carrying that...
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