| 单词 | pestilential |
| 释义 | pestilential (once / 6379 pages) adj Infectious, plague-causing, and definitely disease-bearing: If it's likely to bring along pestilence, then it's pestilential. Today we know that dirty hands, unclean water, and bubonic plague-carrying rats can all be potentially pestilential. But back in the olden days, the culprit wasn't so clear. Too much merriment, too little merriment, too much fresh air, too little fresh air — all were considered pestilential at one time or another. WORD FAMILYpestilential: pestilentially+/pestilence: pestilences, pestilential/pestilent: pestilence, pestilently USAGE EXAMPLESFoetid and pestilential, this wasteland has long been a haven for the waifs of Kenya’s fifth city, the country’s highland capital and long-distance running heartland. The Guardian(Oct 10, 2016) This is Latin for “Perhaps a gusher of patriotic kitsch will stanch the leakage of our market share to pestilential craft breweries.” Washington Post(May 18, 2016) He ratchets down his usual fretful-puppy winsomeness to create an eloquent yet non-judgmental vessel for the character’s hollow charm, careering ambition and pestilential value system. Time(Oct 31, 2014) adj likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift Syn pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey epidemic (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously |
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