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pestilential

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pes·ti·len·tial  (pst-lnshl)
adj.
Pestilent. See Synonyms at poisonous.
pesti·lential·ly adv.
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Adj.1.pestilential - likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
plaguey, pestiferous, pestilent
epidemic - (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza"


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Only a few scattered huts could be seen through the pestilential mists; but the appearance of the country soon changed, for it often happens in Africa that some of the unhealthiest districts lie close beside others that are perfectly salubrious.
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I have a notion, and more than a notion, that I shall never pass back alive through these pestilential swamps.
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He consigned them to red regions; he called upon the pestilential wrath of strange gods.
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