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pestilent

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pestilent/ˈpɛstɪl(ə)nt/

▶adjective

1 deadly.

2 informal, dated annoying.

3 archaic harmful to morals or public order.

– derivatives
pestilently adverb.

– origin ME: from L. pestilens, pestilent- ‘unhealthy, destructive’, from pestis ‘plague’.

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