most pestilent
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Much of his early writing has encouraged among the modern youth that most pestilent of all popular tricks and fallacies; what is called the argument of progress.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
He is a most pestilent, abominable man, Mr. Boothby.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
Hence those who are put to the test by them are angry with me, and not with them, and say that "there is one Socrates, a most pestilent fellow, who corrupts the youth."
From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Henry Cary
Brébeuf especially was accounted the most pestilent of sorcerers.
From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
Quadr.” is an innocuous and sweet animal; but, when pressed hard by dogs and men, it can eject such a most pestilent and fetid smell and excrement, that nothing can be more horrible.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley
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