most pestilent
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Much of his early writing has encouraged among the modern youth that most pestilent of all popular tricks and fallacies; what is called the argument of progress.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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 William E. Dodd
Most cunning and most pestilent of men, Nor I, nor any other Argive, saw Thee toiling in that fray, when Trojans strove Fiercely to hale away Achilles slain.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
I understand that you two young men formerly belonged to the squadron of that most pestilent heretic and pirate, Cavendish; is it not so?
From Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by W. (William) Rainey
And while ye go about to drive your neighbour out of his land, ye must needs first bring into your own land the most pestilent puddle of unthrifts that can be.
From Against War by Desiderius Erasmus
