pestilent in the PONS Dictionary

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His blood is a dark, corrosive, liquid ooze, and he radiates a pestilent aura of decay.
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Improper deployment of the pestilent can draumatise other people.
jamaica-gleaner.com
Cattle dung is also a primary breeding ground for several pestilent species of fly and parasitic worm.
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Crowds no longer collect together in great and pestilent cities...
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Jumping bugs nesting in the mattress, all the more pestilent for being probably imagined.
dailyreview.com.au
So as we approach another general election in 2017, begone, pestilent "rotten borough" squabbling.
www.nzherald.co.nz
Nick's use of birds in his writing runs the full spectrum, from pestilent purveyors of gloom and death through to bright winged messengers of love and adoration.
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The rat, like its pestilent namesake, has reproduced since hitting town in the '90s - at one time, there were some 30 nesting throughout the five boroughs.
www.nydailynews.com
Others, too small to attack these animals, are simply vicious, noisy, and pestilent.
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They had four children before she died of a pestilent fever in 1634.
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