Synonyms for pestilent
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pes-tl-uh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛs tl ənt |
Top 10 synonyms for pestilent
Définition of pestilent
Origin :- late 14c., from Latin pestilentem (nominative pestilens), from pestilis "of the nature of a plague," from pestis "deadly contagious disease" (see pest (n.)). Related: Pestilently.
- adj dangerous
- She would have been out holiday-making (as I settled it) but for the pestilent rain.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- The pestilent coxcomb has his uses, and his uses, like adversity's, are sweet.
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- But how was this pestilent young cub of an Englishman to be got rid of?
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Thetis » by Harry Collingwood
- Is it pestilent Machiuilian pollicie that thou hast studied?
- Extract from : « Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets » by Various
- Then he was liable to be seized and put to death as a pestilent heretic.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2 » by Various
- American law to most of them is but a pestilent thing to be evaded.
- Extract from : « Historic Towns of the Western States » by Various
- The true beggar, as I have said, is not often annoyed by these pestilent callers.
- Extract from : « Beggars » by W. H. (William Henry) Davies
- Never had I ventured into so pestilent and forbidding a place.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Cloomber » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Severe laws have often been enacted, against these pestilent impostors.
- Extract from : « Dealings With The Dead » by A Sexton of the Old School
- I have little doubt that this scullery was a pestilent place.
- Extract from : « The Record of Nicholas Freydon » by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
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