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pestilent
[ pes-tl-uhnt ]
adjective
- producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- destructive to life; deadly; poisonous.
- injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious.
- troublesome, annoying, or mischievous.
pestilent
/ ˈɛɪəԳ /
adjective
- annoying; irritating
- highly destructive morally or physically; pernicious
- infected with or likely to cause epidemic or infectious disease
Derived Forms
- ˈپԳٱ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- t·Գ· adverb
- t·t·Գ adjective
- anti·t·Գ· adverb
- ԴDz·t·Գ adjective
- non·t·Գ· adverb
- ܲ·t·Գ adjective
- un·t·Գ· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pestilent1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pestilent1
Example Sentences
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.
But racist real estate rules and low pay sequestered Mexican workers and their families in cramped, often pestilent shacks, where deadly tuberculosis spread just like COVID-19 has today.
Trump is a proven misogynist, a racist and a ball of pestilent, narcissistic slime.
He gets as far as lamenting that the Earth itself “appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors” before being blown up by a rocket.
By Galloway’s reckoning, the pestilent side effects of unbridled capitalism could be boiled down, in both cause and solution, to women’s willingness in the bedroom.
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