pestilently
- 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 personal8.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
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 Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
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 Moore, Thomas
What a pestilently early hour you breakfast at, Ned!
From Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
But there is something quite pestilently Pecksniffian about shrinking from a hard task on the plea that it is not hard enough.
From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
