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pes·ti·lent  audio  (pst-lnt) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Tending to cause death; deadly.
  2. Likely to cause an epidemic disease.
  3. Infected or contaminated with a contagious disease.
  4. Morally, socially, or politically harmful; pernicious. See Synonyms at poisonous.
  5. Causing annoyance or disapproval.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilns, pestilent-, from pestis, pestilence ; see pest


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