pestilently

Variant of pestilent

adjective

  1. likely to cause death; deadly
  2. Rare contagious; pestilential
  3. dangerous to the security and welfare of society; pernicious: the pestilent threat of war
  4. annoying; troublesome

Origin: ME < L pestilens < pestis, plague

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