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pestilent
[pes-tl-uhnt]
adjective
producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
destructive to life; deadly; poisonous.
injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious.
troublesome, annoying, or mischievous.
pestilent
/ ˱čɲõ³ŁÉŖ±ōɲԳ٠/
adjective
annoying; irritating
highly destructive morally or physically; pernicious
infected with or likely to cause epidemic or infectious disease
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- pestilently adverb
- antipestilent adjective
- antipestilently adverb
- nonpestilent adjective
- nonpestilently adverb
- unpestilent adjective
- unpestilently adverb
- Ė±č±š²õ³Ł¾±±ō±š²Ō³Ł±ō²ā adverb
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of pestilent1
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of pestilent1
Example Sentences
A swath of the Santa Clarita Valley is under a first-of-its-kind quarantine after the invasive and pestilent tau fruit fly was found in the area, officials announced this week.
But racist real estate rules and low pay sequestered Mexican workers and their families in cramped, often pestilent shacks, where deadly tuberculosis spread just like COVID-19 has today.
Trump is a proven misogynist, a racist and a ball of pestilent, narcissistic slime.
He gets as far as lamenting that the Earth itself āappears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vaporsā before being blown up by a rocket.
By Gallowayās reckoning, the pestilent side effects of unbridled capitalism could be boiled down, in both cause and solution, to womenās willingness in the bedroom.
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