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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)

"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 Herbert, Henry William

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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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