pestilential

Example Sentences

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A garden pond can be either a pestilential mess or the beating heart of a landscape, depending on how well it is designed, engineered and maintained.

From Washington Post

At one point, a big black fly disconcertingly lit on Mr. Pence’s white shock of hair, a pestilential symbol that proved the writers of our reality can be pretty heavy-handed with the metaphors.

From New York Times

The Middle Ages and Renaissance produced a body of “pestilential music”:motets, madrigals and other compositions responding to the horrific plagues of those times.

From Los Angeles Times

Faced with a pestilential presidency, the Democrats are ready to rally to around the Delaware Democrat.

From The Guardian

In those cases, it can be hard to identify the pestilential pooper: livestock, reptiles, rodents, and dogs can all spread Salmonella, along with other, less common animals.

From The Verge