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Pestilential
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow.
2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor.