most pestilent
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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
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
So Amjad looked at him with angry eyes and asked, "Why hast thou tarried till now, O most pestilent of slaves?"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
"You and your men are down there associatin' with the most pestilent set of robbers and land-pirates that ever disgraced a civilized country," announced the Colonel.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
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