most pestilent

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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

"You and your men are down there associatin' with the most pestilent set of robbers and land-pirates that ever disgraced a civilized country," announced the Colonel.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

Brébeuf especially was accounted the most pestilent of sorcerers.

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

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 Morley, Henry

One of the most pestilent of all social nuisances is the athlete who must be eternally performing "feats," and then talking about them.

From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James