Meanings of most pestilent in English

She may do most pestilent mischief if she sets this gossip going.

He is known to be an influential member of one of the most pestilent secret societies in the country.

Ever avid, ever grasping, he falls, step by step, in the foul sink, and the colony sees in Gabriel Varney its most pestilent rogue.

I understand that you two young men formerly belonged to the squadron of that most pestilent heretic and pirate, Cavendish; is it not so?

In the seventeenth century, it was agreed that, next to the Münster Anabaptists, the Quakers were of all dissenting sects the most pestilent and blasphemous.

One of the most pestilent of all social nuisances is the athlete who must be eternally performing "feats," and then talking about them.

"It is notoriously the most pestilent robber's nest between Mayence and Cologne."

(He had a most pestilent trick of perpetually playing monitor, to the wet-blanketing of all good fellowship.)

"He is the son of Caboche, the head of the flayers, one of the most pestilent villains in the city."