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pestilential
[pes-tl-en-shuhl]
adjective
producing or tending to produce pestilence.
pertaining to or of the nature of pestilence, especially bubonic plague.
pernicious; harmful.
annoyingly troublesome.
pestilential
/ ˌɛɪˈɛʃə /
adjective
dangerous or troublesome; harmful or annoying
of, causing, or resembling pestilence
Other Word Forms
- pestilentially adverb
- pestilentialness noun
- antipestilential adjective
- nonpestilential adjective
- unpestilential adjective
- ˌپˈԳپ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of pestilential1
Example Sentences
A garden pond can be either a pestilential mess or the beating heart of a landscape, depending on how well it is designed, engineered and maintained.
"Have you been in this pestilential city long?"
At one point, a big black fly disconcertingly lit on Mr. Pence’s white shock of hair, a pestilential symbol that proved the writers of our reality can be pretty heavy-handed with the metaphors.
The Middle Ages and Renaissance produced a body of “pestilential music”:motets, madrigals and other compositions responding to the horrific plagues of those times.
Faced with a pestilential presidency, the Democrats are ready to rally to around the Delaware Democrat.
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