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pestilent

[pes-tl-uhnt]

adjective

  1. producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.

  2. destructive to life; deadly; poisonous.

  3. injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious.

  4. troublesome, annoying, or mischievous.



pestilent

/ ˈ±čɛ²õ³ŁÉŖ±ōə²Ō³Ł /

adjective

  1. annoying; irritating

  2. highly destructive morally or physically; pernicious

  3. infected with or likely to cause epidemic or infectious disease

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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • pestilently adverb
  • antipestilent adjective
  • antipestilently adverb
  • nonpestilent adjective
  • nonpestilently adverb
  • unpestilent adjective
  • unpestilently adverb
  • ˈ±č±š²õ³Ł¾±±ō±š²Ō³Ł±ō²ā adverb
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of pestilent1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin pestilent- (stem of ±č±š²õ³Ł¾±±ōŧ²Ō²õ ) unhealthy, noxious, alteration of pestilentus, equivalent to pesti- (stem of pestis ) pest + -lentus -lent
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of pestilent1

C15: from Latin pestilens unwholesome, from pestis plague
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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.

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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.

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Trump is a proven misogynist, a racist and a ball of pestilent, narcissistic slime.

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He gets as far as lamenting that the Earth itself ā€œappears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vaporsā€ before being blown up by a rocket.

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By Galloway’s reckoning, the pestilent side effects of unbridled capitalism could be boiled down, in both cause and solution, to women’s willingness in the bedroom.

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