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pestilent
adjective
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
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ˈpɛstələnt
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adjective
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
“{'source': 'Jonathan Swift', 'text': 'a pestilential malignancy in the air'}”
adjective
Exceedingly harmful
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{'source': 'Jonathan Swift', 'text': 'a pestilential malignancy in the air'}
Plaguey fevers
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