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Definition of Pestilent

1. Adjective. Exceedingly harmful.

2. Adjective. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. "Plaguey fevers"

Definition of Pestilent

1. a. Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.

Definition of Pestilent

1. Adjective. highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly. ¹

2. Adjective. (informal) annoying. ¹

3. Adjective. (archaic) harmful to morals or public order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pestilent

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestilent

pesticide pesticide poisoning pesticide residues pesticide synergists pesticides pestiduct pestiducts pestier pestiest pestiferous

pestiferously pestiferousness pestilation pestilence pestilences pestilent (current term) pestilential pestilentially pestilentious pestilently

pestis pestis ambulans pestis bubonica pestis fulminans pestis major pestis minor pestis siderans pestivirus infections pestle

Literary usage of Pestilent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. War in Disguise, Or, The Frauds of the Neutral Flags by James Stephen (1806)
"... to prove that a belligerent state, may advantageously permit its subjects to insure the goods of an enemy from capture; and that pestilent moral heresy, ..."

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