most pestilent
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One of the most pestilent of all social nuisances is the athlete who must be eternally performing "feats," and then talking about them.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
‘He died by reason of a most pestilent fever,’ answered the wounded man.
From The Red Romance Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
Quadr.” is an innocuous and sweet animal; but, when pressed hard by dogs and men, it can eject such a most pestilent and fetid smell and excrement, that nothing can be more horrible.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley
To his disappointment, he discovered that the only reference in history to an Earl of Saxby made out that particular one to be a most pestilent Roundhead.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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 Edward S. Hodgson
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