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pestilent

/pes-tl-uhnt/US // ˈpɛs tl ənt //UK // (ˈpɛstɪlənt) //

讨厌的人,瘟疫,瘟疫性的,害人的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
    • : destructive to life; deadly; poisonous.
    • : injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious.
    • : troublesome, annoying, or mischievous.

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Examples

  • You idle young blackguards, you pestilent oafs, you fools of the first water, write them out.

  • You pestilent young jackanapes, do you suppose I haven't noticed your idleness?

  • He was accused of being "a pestilent fellow, a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world."

  • This man Luther is also accused of being a pestilent fellow who troubles the papacy and the Roman empire.

  • Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.