pestilence
noun
Origin of pestilence
Related Words for pestilence
scourge, sickness, contagion, disease, infection, virus, plague, rash, outbreak, endemicExamples from the Web for pestilence
Contemporary Examples of pestilence
This notion of pestilence as a “great equalizer” has remained in vogue ever since plague pop culture began.
In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine.
In the meantime, I do kind of hope he wins Iowa, so that he can spread some of that pestilence around the GOP.
The coded “proofs” are everywhere: Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and pestilence.
Cats, the Times told us, are a pestilence akin to gypsy moths and kudzu.
Historical Examples of pestilence
The second power of vulgarity is obscenity, and this vice is like the pestilence.
The Call of the Twentieth CenturyDavid Starr Jordan
The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
How is it that some pestilence does not carry off all these poor people?
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Yet it had sufficed that the nations should flock there for a pestilence to break out.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
"Avoid it like a pestilence, monsieur," he answered promptly.
Bardelys the MagnificentRafael Sabatini