"pestilent" in the adjective sense
1. baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
exceedingly harmful
2. pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
"a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift
"plaguey fevers"
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