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

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

Jefferson viewed “great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.”

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

Foetid and pestilential, this wasteland has long been a haven for the waifs of Kenya’s fifth city, the country’s highland capital and long-distance running heartland.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2016

He put it all to boil in a pot of castor oil until he got a thick and pestilential syrup which was more like common caramel than valuable gold.

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