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Meanings of pestilential in English
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.
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Examples for "pestilent"
Examples for "pestilent"
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!
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 pestilential in English
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.
6
Instead of pestilential or malignant fever, it might be a harmless intermittent.
7
This pestilential Cabrera is not yet quelled, and Morella still holds out.
8
They nurse the sick, breathing the pestilential atmosphere of the hospital.
9
The bitter air of the northland had been cleansed of a pestilential breath.
10
The cold seemed more piercing and bitter, the air more thick and pestilential.
11
You are a scathe and a blight; a pestilential ogre, drunk with self-worship.
12
Like pestilential vapor, the infamy of universal reprobation hung over him.
13
Yet pestilential as is the clime, the scenery is very beautiful.
14
We got away from the pestilential Swamp and that poisonous ground.
15
He had been dead above four-and-twenty hours, of a pestilential fever.
16
Again, a pestilential disease made its appearance, to which many hundreds fell victims.
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