Crossword-Solution: PESTILENT 9 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Pestilent a. Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.

We have 21 clues for the answer “PESTILENT”

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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.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
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.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
But they must do this, somehow or other, without letting the river be tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away.
Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home Bayard Taylor 2008
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 Romany Rye George Borrow 2007
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.
Lavengro George Borrow 2006

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…
David Guterson East of the Mountains
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…
William Shakespeare Hamlet
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NYT, S&S.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1973–2010).