Definitions
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- adverb Pestilently.
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- adverb In a
pestilential manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For Van Horn had often listened to the recitals of Jerry's pedigree by Tom Haggin, over Scotch-and-sodas, when it was too pestilentially hot to go to bed.
Chapter 7 1917
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The usual conversation at his stepmother's table was, as he would have said, so pestilentially high-brow that he seldom troubled himself to follow it enough to join in.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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I gently insisted, pointing out that I did not care for a walk across the wind-swept desert only to dip myself into a pool of lukewarm and pestilentially sulphureous water.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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Tom Haggin, over Scotch-and-sodas, when it was too pestilentially hot to go to bed.
Jerry of the Islands Jack London 1896
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For Van Horn had often listened to the recitals of Jerry’s pedigree by Tom Haggin, over Scotch-and-sodas, when it was too pestilentially hot to go to bed.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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