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You idle young blackguards, you pestilent oafs, you fools of the first water, write them out.

You pestilent young jackanapes, do you suppose I haven't noticed your idleness?

He was accused of being "a pestilent fellow, a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world."

This man Luther is also accused of being a pestilent fellow who troubles the papacy and the Roman empire.

Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pestilent, such as: baneful, contagious, contaminating, corrupting, deadly, and deleterious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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