pestilent
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A swath of the Santa Clarita Valley is under a first-of-its-kind quarantine after the invasive and pestilent tau fruit fly was found in the area, officials announced this week.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023
Still, “The Good Mothers” is casting a wider net, indicting an entire pestilent culture.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018
When faced with concerns about productivity, any possible pestilent threat to the harvest needs to be eradicated, which often means pesticides.
From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2013
The gloomy soliloquy that follows, in which Hamlet calls the world a “foul and pestilent congregation of vapors,” seems more a youthful pose than an agonized cry.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2012
Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing pestilent
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Othello
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