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Meanings of pestilential in anglès

Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.

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        Examples for "pestilent"
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        All the air is filled with the pestilent effluvium of his nostrils.
        Dreams and Dream Stories
        2
        And from this pestilent beginning, the other sacrilegious conceits followed on me.
        The Confessions of St. Augustine
        3
        It is this pestilent son of yours has brought you into trouble.
        La Vendée
        4
        She may do most pestilent mischief if she sets this gossip going.
        Nightfall
        5
        And yet the rogue is but a pestilent roundhead-themore's the pity!
        St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
        1
        You bury your seamen upon the pestiferous shores; and, shocking to humanity!
        Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 / Read before the Cin...
        2
        The air is pestiferous; warm and diseased, it fans us as we approach.
        Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
        3
        Yet the atmosphere of pestiferous fragrance had attracted, rather than repelled.
        History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
        4
        There was really only one drawback-thepestiferous draft-boards that never stopped snooping round.
        Jimmie Higgins
        5
        There was only this pestiferous overlaying of shame and cowardice to be removed.
        The Damnation of Theron Ware
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        TRYGAEUS My legs pain me; it is such a plaguey long journey.
        Peace
        2
        Now be keerful and not run afoul of the plaguey lye leech.
        Tempest and Sunshine
        3
        He was only too plaguey sure of himself to feel any anxiety.
        A Venetian June
        4
        Kiss me, lad, if you can find room between these plaguey bandages.
        Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr...
        5
        La!-forsure he writes not as he did, but is plaguey busy.
        "The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
        Usage of pestilential in anglès
        1
        A thick and pestilential fog clouded the height of the vaulted dungeon.
        The Monk: A Romance
        2
        To crown all, the mosquitoes were pestilential in their numbers and venom.
        First Across the Continent / The Story of the Exploring Expediti...
        3
        The vipers grew up, and scorched the country-side with their pestilential breath.
        The Danish History, Books I-IX
        4
        Out from the inscrutable white forest murder breathed like a pestilential air.
        Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life
        5
        From thence foul vapors rose incessantly and spread a pestilential stench around.
        A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
        6
        Instead of pestilential or malignant fever, it might be a harmless intermittent.
        Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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        This pestilential Cabrera is not yet quelled, and Morella still holds out.
        In Kedar's Tents
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        They nurse the sick, breathing the pestilential atmosphere of the hospital.
        Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
        9
        The bitter air of the northland had been cleansed of a pestilential breath.
        The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
        10
        The cold seemed more piercing and bitter, the air more thick and pestilential.
        The Monk: A Romance
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        You are a scathe and a blight; a pestilential ogre, drunk with self-worship.
        Destiny
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        Like pestilential vapor, the infamy of universal reprobation hung over him.
        History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
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        Yet pestilential as is the clime, the scenery is very beautiful.
        Peter the Whaler
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        We got away from the pestilential Swamp and that poisonous ground.
        Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
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        He had been dead above four-and-twenty hours, of a pestilential fever.
        The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
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        Again, a pestilential disease made its appearance, to which many hundreds fell victims.
        Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
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