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most pestilent

ADJECTIVE

dangerous,

Synonyms

WEAK

contagious contaminating corrupting deadly deleterious destructive detrimental diseased evil fatal harmful baneful infectious injurious lethal mortal noxious pernicious pestiferous ruinous tainting troublesome vicious

Antonyms

WEAK

clean healthy hygienic safe sanitary

ADJECTIVE

dangerous

Synonyms

WEAK

baneful contagious contaminating corrupting deadly deleterious destructive detrimental diseased evil fatal harmful infectious injurious lethal mortal noxious pernicious pestiferous pestilential ruinous tainting troublesome vicious

Example Sentences

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In the seventeenth century, it was agreed that, next to the Münster Anabaptists, the Quakers were of all dissenting sects the most pestilent and blasphemous.

From Beginnings of the American People by Dodd, William E.

He is known to be an influential member of one of the most pestilent secret societies in the country.

From The Gadfly by Voynich, E. L. (Ethel Lillian)

And thus ended my long and persistent pursuit of one of the most pestilent and formidable gangs of pirates that had haunted the Atlantic and West Indian waters for many years.

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Hodgson, Edward S.

Is there no lesson in the fact that she, nurtured in every luxury, braves the wildest day of winter in her mission of charity?—that the most squalid misery, the most pestilent disease never deterred her?

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

He is a most pestilent, abominable man, Mr. Boothby.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony