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pestilential

/pes-tl-en-shuhl/US // ˌpɛs tlˈɛn ʃəl //UK // (ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃəl) //

瘟疫性,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 pestilence.
    • : pertaining to or of the nature of pestilence, especially bubonic plague.
    • : pernicious; harmful.
    • : annoyingly troublesome.

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Examples

  • His government believes Scotland's generally pestilential climate can be a "green energy" blessing.

  • I long for the day I no longer have to think about this pestilential little locust.

  • When switched off to save supply, the result was pestilential odor.

  • The graves of thousands of English soldiers had been dug in the pestilential morass of Dundalk.

  • Let the following incident witness his sagacity: Pestilential fevers periodically ravaged his native city.

  • None but Indians could live and labour and travel habitually, in such a pestilential atmosphere.

  • He died of a pestilential disorder, which, in the course of two days, had carried off nearly 400 men in his camp.

  • Like pestilential vapor, the infamy of universal reprobation hung over him.