pestilential
adjective
producing or tending to produce pestilence.
pestilentially
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a word derived from
pestilential.
Example Sentences
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They ended the day by marching to the almost pestilentially polluted Cuyahoga River.
From Time Magazine Archive
The usual conversation at his stepmother's table was, as he would have said, so pestilentially high-brow that he seldom troubled himself to follow it enough to join in.
From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
The most pestilentially lucky devil under the sun.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
I gently insisted, pointing out that I did not care for a walk across the wind-swept desert only to dip myself into a pool of lukewarm and pestilentially sulphureous water.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman
There was a pipe in it but no water, and I say without fear of challenge that it was pestilentially dirty.
From Third class in Indian railways by Gandhi, Mahatma
