pestilent
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I still remember my Pestilent Defiler revolver and my incendiary Wildcat submachine gun fondly to this day.
From Forbes • May 27, 2015
Is it possible that the Earth can breede a Monster more pernicious than this most Pestilent Beast?
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
Shopmen with clubs to sell handed him rackets, Rackets of sand-paper, rubber and felt, Said to secure an unplayable service, Pestilent screws and the death-dealing welt.
From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various
Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
Replied the old trot, "As thy head liveth, O my daughter, I will play off higher-class rogueries in Baghdad than ever played Calamity Ahmad or Hasan the Pestilent."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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Romeo and Juliet
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Othello
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