Associations to the word «Pestilent»
Noun
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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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.