pestilent

How To Use pestilent In A Sentence

• They squeezed across the narrow bridge ten abreast - one hideous, brown, pestilential beast with a hundred buckling legs.
• From the beasts of prey and the cannibal humans down to the death-dealing microbes, no quarter is given; and daily, wider and wider areas of hostile territory, whether of a warring desert-tribe in Africa or a pestilential fever-hole like Panama, are made peaceable and habitable for mankind. THE HUMAN DRIFT
• We must get rid of these pestilential flies.
• It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN Redgauntlet
• Eck's comments on the "pestilential" errors of Wiclif and Hus condemned by the Council of Constance was met by the reply, that, so far as the position of the Hussites was concerned, there were among them many who were "very Christian and evangelical". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• It must be realised that the developers who are trying to spoil our town rely on people thinking that they have already objected to their pestilential schemes and don't have to do so again. But this is not so.
• If they want to know their first task, as coaching motivator and quarterback leader, it's to eradicate pestilential losses like this one. For the NFL's worst, it always gets better when they play the Redskins
• During the hot weather it's a pestilential place, populated by heavy clouds of biting insects.
• It is a pestilential bureaucracy, which attempts to micro-manage higher and school education.
• At every fair-time "a kind of pestilential fever" raged, so that at least 400 folk were buried there annually during the five or six weeks of the market. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.