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 Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The most pestilentially lucky devil under the sun.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
Adrian was a lucky devil, a pestilentially lucky devil.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
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 Norman Douglas
