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pestilential

[pes-tl-en-shuhl] / ˌpɛs tlˈɛn ʃəl /


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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

A garden pond can be either a pestilential mess or the beating heart of a landscape, depending on how well it is designed, engineered and maintained.

From Washington Post Jun. 29, 2021

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

Somehow, this pestilential content has “exploded” on Facebook.

From The Guardian Jan. 21, 2018

Their snorting of a many-headed dragon filled the glow of noon with a pestilential vapor.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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