pestilence

The church had given the cause of the pestilence to be the "impropriety of the behaviour of men" and poulaines symbolised that behaviour.

In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death.

I’d love to see Harris and the Democrats start saying they have to “Drain the Swamp!” of this slimy pestilence.

From the Middle Ages on, Paris’ early underground waste channels were a wellspring of public fascination — and a source of pestilence, criminality and existential dread.

Trump, who channels Mussolini when he isn’t plagiarizing Hitler, is, in fact, a pestilence preying on America and its freedoms.