Associations to the word «Pestilent»

Wiktionary

PESTILENT, adjective. Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
PESTILENT, adjective. (informal) Annoying.
PESTILENT, adjective. (archaic) Harmful to morals or public order.

Dictionary definition

PESTILENT, adjective. Exceedingly harmful.
PESTILENT, adjective. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin