pestilential
Example Sentences
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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
Somehow, this pestilential content has “exploded” on Facebook.
From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2018
This time Herbie stayed put in his pestilential sleeping bag.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
