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Adjective: pestilent  pe-stu-lunt
  1. Exceedingly harmful
    - baneful, deadly, pernicious
     
  2. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
    - pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey

See also: epidemic, noxious

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