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   pestilent

   /ˈpɛstɪlənt/

   adjective

   • 1. destructive to life; deadly: "pestilent diseases"
   • ▪ causing annoyance; troublesome: "they are bickering like pestilent children"
   • ▪ harmful or dangerous to morals or public order; pernicious: "the pestilent sect of Luther"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin pestilens, pestilent- ‘unhealthy, destructive’, from pestis ‘plague’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pestilently adverb

   Scrabble Points: 11

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