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pestilent - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'pestilent' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pestilent [ a.]
- Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.

Meaning of 'pestilent' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pestilent [ s]
Meaning (1):
- likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
Example in sentence:
  • a pestilential malignancy in the air;
  • plaguey fevers

Nearby Words:

pes pesade pesage pesane pesanted peschito pese peseta peshito peshitto

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