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pestilential

adjective

Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

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Word length
12
Starts with
P
Ends with
L
Contains
ES
Scrabble score
14

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adjective

  1. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

    “{'source': 'Jonathan Swift', 'text': 'a pestilential malignancy in the air'}”

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{'source': 'Jonathan Swift', 'text': 'a pestilential malignancy in the air'}
Plaguey fevers

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