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plagado

plagued

adjective plah-GAH-doh Rare

Also means

infested

Usage Note

Plagado is the participial adjective of plagar and is almost always followed by de: plagado de errores ('riddled with mistakes'), plagado de turistas ('overrun with tourists'). It is strongly pejorative in tone — it never simply means 'full of' in a neutral or positive sense. Plagado de differs from lleno de (full of, neutral) — reserve plagado for problems, defects, or unwelcome excess.

Examples

"El texto estaba plagado de faltas de ortografía."

Natural Translation

The text was riddled with spelling mistakes.

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