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most pestilent

ADJECTIVE

dangerous,

Synonyms

WEAK

contagious contaminating corrupting deadly deleterious destructive detrimental diseased evil fatal harmful baneful infectious injurious lethal mortal noxious pernicious pestiferous ruinous tainting troublesome vicious

Antonyms

WEAK

clean healthy hygienic safe sanitary

ADJECTIVE

dangerous

Synonyms

WEAK

baneful contagious contaminating corrupting deadly deleterious destructive detrimental diseased evil fatal harmful infectious injurious lethal mortal noxious pernicious pestiferous pestilential ruinous tainting troublesome vicious

Example Sentences

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Is there no lesson in the fact that she, nurtured in every luxury, braves the wildest day of winter in her mission of charity?—that the most squalid misery, the most pestilent disease never deterred her?

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

He is a most pestilent, abominable man, Mr. Boothby.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

Amjed looked at him with angry eyes and said, 'Why hast thou tarried till now, O most pestilent of slaves?'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

To his disappointment, he discovered that the only reference in history to an Earl of Saxby made out that particular one to be a most pestilent Roundhead.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

Brébeuf especially was accounted the most pestilent of sorcerers.

From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Parkman, Francis