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pestilently
Variant of pestilent
adjective
- likely to cause death; deadly
- Rare contagious; pestilential
- dangerous to the security and welfare of society; pernicious: the pestilent threat of war
- annoying; troublesome
Related Forms:
- pestilently adverb
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