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pestilential - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'pestilential' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pestilential [ a.]
- Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.
- Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.

Meaning of 'pestilential' (Princeton's WordNet)

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