Crossword-Solution: PESTILENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pestilent | a. | Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PESTILENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plaguesome | 1 answer |
| Plague-stricken | 1 answer |
| Likely to spread disease | 1 answer |
| Extremely destructive | 2 answers |
| miasmal | 8 answers |
| plaguy | 8 answers |
| endemic | 13 answers |
| mephitic | 15 answers |
| Pestiferous | 20 answers |
| Lethal | 22 answers |
| Unwholesome. | 25 answers |
| pestilential | 26 answers |
| causing disease | 26 answers |
| Virulent | 28 answers |
| Noxious | 34 answers |
| transmissible | 36 answers |
| Poisonous | 39 answers |
| festering | 55 answers |
| Deadly | 57 answers |
| infectious | 62 answers |
| troublesome | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EECMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PESTILENT (5)
This pestilent wizard (in whom his just punishment seemed to have wrought no manner of amendment) had an inveterate habit of haunting a certain mansion, styled the House of the Seven Gables, against the owner of which he pretended to hold an unsettled claim for ground-rent.
Here is a fellow, who, infected by the most pestilent and blasphemous code of devilry that ever was known, abandoned his property to the vilest scum of the earth that ever did murder by wholesale, and you ask me why I am sorry that a man who instructs youth knows him? Well, but I’ll answer you.
But they must do this, somehow or other, without letting the river be tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away.
These fellows are a pestilent set of heretics, whom we would gladly see burnt; they are, with the most untiring perseverance, and in spite of divers minatory declarations of the holy father, scattering their books abroad through all Europe, and have caused many people in Catholic countries to think that hitherto their priesthood have endeavoured, as much as possible, to keep them blinded.
The people and the government at last becoming enlightened by means of the Scripture spurned it from the island with disgust and horror, the land instantly after its disappearance becoming a fair field, in which arts, sciences, and all the amiable virtues flourished, instead of being a pestilent marsh where swine-like ignorance wallowed, and artful hypocrites, like so many Wills-o'-the-wisp, played antic gambols about, around, and above debased humanity.
Quotes with PESTILENT (2)
He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in the pretence that everything was ordinary, but in fact to service his end-game ruse. He was going over the mountains, he'd said, to hunt for quail in willow canyons, he had no particular canyons in mind, he intended to return on Thursday evening, though possibly, if the hunting was good, he would return on Friday or Saturday. The lie was open-ended so that his family wouldn't sta…
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of th…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NYT, S&S.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1973–2010).