Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pestilent manner; mischievously; perniciously; noxiously.
- Excessively; intolerably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.
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- adverb In a
pestilent manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the same way he lies pestilently to the people of our great country.
Archive 2007-11-18 2007
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In the same way he lies pestilently to the people of our great country.
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She brewed drinks, in some mysterious Asiatic equivalent to the still-room — drenches that smelt pestilently and tasted worse.
Kim 2003
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But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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And I think the same situation would be involved if the critic were concerned to point out that Pindar was scandalously immoral, pestilently cynical, or low and beastly in his views of life.
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She brewed drinks, in some mysterious Asiatic equivalent to the still-room -- drenches that smelt pestilently and tasted worse.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He is one of those pestilently persistent fellows who won't take a hint and sheer off; he is as full of obstinacy as was the mammoth that chased me over yonder, "-- with a jerk of his thumb toward the north --" on our first trip, and must be treated as we treated that mammoth.
With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886
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Sir Walter Raleigh, too, who had been "falsely and pestilently" represented to the Earl as an enemy, rather than what he really was, a most ardent favourer of the Netherland cause, wrote at once to congratulate him on the change in her Majesty's demeanour.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Sir Walter Raleigh, too, who had been "falsely and pestilently" represented to the Earl as an enemy, rather than what he really was, a most ardent favourer of the Netherland cause, wrote at once to congratulate him on the change in her Majesty's demeanour.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Sir Walter Raleigh, too, who had been "falsely and pestilently" represented to the Earl as an enemy, rather than what he really was, a most ardent favourer of the Netherland cause, wrote at once to congratulate him on the change in her Majesty's demeanour.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
hernesheir commented on the word pestilently
Some people spell pestilentially.
September 15, 2011