pestilent
adjective
producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
pestilently
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a word derived from
pestilent.
Example Sentences
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It is a good and good-humoured man, but pestilently prolix and paradoxical and personal.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
"Ay! but he did, most pestilently," interposed Catiline, almost fiercely; "but come, come, why don't they carry him away? we are losing all the morning."
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert
And I think the same situation would be involved if the critic were concerned to point out that Pindar was scandalously immoral, pestilently cynical, or low and beastly in his views of life.
From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
When his destiny was less severe than this, a life insufferably tedious was led by him in barracks pestilently unhealthy.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
