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pestilent

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pestilent
infected with or likely to cause epidemic or infectious disease


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A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Not content with trying to bring you to a bed of sickness, these lickspittles and pestilent old men are trying to bring me to the same.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Sea fowls are pecking at the small crabs, shell-fish, and other sea candies and maccaroni, which the Right Whale sometimes carries on his pestilent back.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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