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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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
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
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 Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
There are now and then such angelic beings as Mr. Hanway and Mr. Howard; but our race in general is pestilently bad and malevolent.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
