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pestilent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
| Derivation | pestilence |
a pestilential malignancy in the air.
pestilent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | baneful, deadly, pernicious |
| Derivation | pestilence |
Examples of pestilent
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Moral grandstanding is its game, and its intended prize is the scalp of a pestilent sheriff.
From the washingtontimes.com
Truly pestilent information, about one in a million stories, persists for 20 generations or more.
From the economist.com
Never mind that the creepy Ephors, pestilent elders who leer at half-naked female oracles, don't want a war.
From the latimes.com
Snapping turtle becomes an entree after being treated with an air compressor and pestilent fish are cooked to perfection.
From the huffingtonpost.com
I like the idea that someone as pestilent as Thatcher is played by Meryl Streep who, by many accounts, is an incredibly nice, sweet person.
From the guardian.co.uk
It didn't really seem like water, but masses of ash and soil, with such a pestilent odor of sulfur that it couldn't be tolerated even from afar.
From the time.com
Trapped as we are in the sucking, pestilent swamp of political and economic woes, it is understandable that Americans would long for that elusive Simpler Time.
From the latimes.com
Some more optimistic uses were as a preventive medicine to ward off the plague and all forms of pestilent diseases and as a cure for the bites from all types of poisonous animals.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
- Baneful: exceedingly harmful
- Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
- Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly; annoying; harmful to morals or public order
