plaguey
Like a vexing nuisance
Plaguey is an informal, somewhat old-fashioned adjective meaning annoying, troublesome, or vexatious.
It derives from plague in its sense of a persistent nuisance rather than the disease.
That plaguey dog keeps digging up my garden.
The word functions as a mild intensifier, similar to confounded or blasted, expressing frustration without true profanity.
It appears occasionally as an adverb meaning annoyingly or excessively: The weather's been plaguey hot this week.
Causing mild annoyance
- vexatiousCausing annoyance or distress
- peskyMildly but persistently irritating
- irksomeCausing mild frustration
- troublesomeCausing difficulty or annoyance
nuisance · aggravating · irritating · maddening · exasperating · nagging · pestiferous · tiresome
bothersome
Causing mild annoyance
- vexatiousCausing annoyance or distress
- peskyMildly but persistently irritating
- irksomeCausing mild frustration
troublesome · nuisance · aggravating · irritating · maddening · exasperating · nagging · pestiferous · tiresome · wearisome
diseased
Affected by illness
- infectedInvaded by pathogens
- contagiousTransmissible between people
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
sickly · afflicted · blighted · pestilent · feverish · miasmic · unwholesome · noxious · virulent · contaminated
confounded
Thoroughly puzzled or frustrated
darned · doggone · infernal · accursed · damnable · wretched · blighted · devilish · dratted · tarnation
plagueypleasing
Causing enjoyment or satisfaction
delightful · agreeable · pleasant · enjoyable · gratifying
- avoid like the plagueEvade with extreme caution
- the plagueDevastating infectious epidemic
- avoided like the plagueIntensely, deliberately evaded
- bubonic plagueYersinia pestis infection
- avoiding like the plagueExtreme deliberate evasion
- plague doctorEpidemic-treating masked physician