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单词 pestilent
释义
pes·ti·lent (pĕstə-lənt)
adj.
1.
a. Causing or likely to cause epidemic disease: a pestilent swamp.
b. Infectious or epidemic: a pestilent disease.
c. Archaic Tending to cause death; deadly.
2. Morally or socially harmful; pernicious: pestilent writings.
3. Causing annoyance or disapproval: a pestilent fool.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilēns, pestilent-, from pestis, pestilence; see PEST.]
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