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Meanings of pestilent in English
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.
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Examples for "pestilential"
Examples for "pestilential"
1
A thick and pestilential fog clouded the height of the vaulted dungeon.
2
To crown all, the mosquitoes were pestilential in their numbers and venom.
3
The vipers grew up, and scorched the country-side with their pestilential breath.
4
Out from the inscrutable white forest murder breathed like a pestilential air.
5
From thence foul vapors rose incessantly and spread a pestilential stench around.
1
You bury your seamen upon the pestiferous shores; and, shocking to humanity!
2
The air is pestiferous; warm and diseased, it fans us as we approach.
3
Yet the atmosphere of pestiferous fragrance had attracted, rather than repelled.
4
There was really only one drawback-thepestiferous draft-boards that never stopped snooping round.
5
There was only this pestiferous overlaying of shame and cowardice to be removed.
1
TRYGAEUS My legs pain me; it is such a plaguey long journey.
2
Now be keerful and not run afoul of the plaguey lye leech.
3
He was only too plaguey sure of himself to feel any anxiety.
4
Kiss me, lad, if you can find room between these plaguey bandages.
5
La!-forsure he writes not as he did, but is plaguey busy.
Usage of pestilent in English
1
All the air is filled with the pestilent effluvium of his nostrils.
2
And from this pestilent beginning, the other sacrilegious conceits followed on me.
3
It is this pestilent son of yours has brought you into trouble.
4
She may do most pestilent mischief if she sets this gossip going.
5
And yet the rogue is but a pestilent roundhead-themore's the pity!
6
The first sip of love is pleasant; the second, perilous; the third, pestilent.
7
This pestilent Sir Humphrey was upsetting every tradition of the office.
8
Place a healthy man in a pestilent atmosphere, and he will inhale death.
9
Never had I ventured into so pestilent and forbidding a place.
10
Which of the two shall, in truth and nature, be the pestilent quality?
11
He brooked no discussion of his measures by any pestilent editor.
12
I'm a pestilent survivor of the feudal system, aren't I, Nona?
13
Life has become a hell for me, a pestilent, militant hell!
14
Out of this with your paupers, your charities, your reforms, your pestilent morals!
15
The flies are pestilent-incrediblynoisy, intrusive, and disgusting-andoh, such swarms!
16
He had been regarded as a pestilent thorn in the sides of all ministers.
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