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pestilent

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Adjective

likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
- a pestilential malignancy in the air- Jonathan Swift
- plaguey fevers

exceedingly harmful

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Synonyms:
pestilential pestiferous plaguey baneful deadly pernicious

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Words pronounced/spelled similarly to "pestilent":
pestilent postulant
Words contain "pestilent":
pestilent pestilential

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