pestilential

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Beginning with the Italianate geometries of Rio de Janeiro’s Passeio Público, the country’s first municipal garden, built over a pestilential lagoon between 1779 and ’83, Brazilian parks often mirrored European ones.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

In those cases, it can be hard to identify the pestilential pooper: livestock, reptiles, rodents, and dogs can all spread Salmonella, along with other, less common animals.

From The Verge • Dec. 12, 2018

Gray, utterly naïve about the pestilential waters he was attempting to navigate, never caught onto Felt’s perfidy.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2018

Jefferson viewed “great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.”

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

This time Herbie stayed put in his pestilential sleeping bag.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols