pestilential

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Beginning with the Italianate geometries of Rio de Janeiro’s Passeio Público, the country’s first municipal garden, built over a pestilential lagoon between 1779 and ’83, Brazilian parks often mirrored European ones.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

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 • Jun. 29, 2021

The residents of 1665 London, I know, also wore masks—herb-stuffed beaks through which they breathed the pestilential air.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

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 • Dec. 12, 2018

As soon as he opened the door he felt the pestilential attack of the chamberpots, which were placed on the floor and all of which had been used several times.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez