Definitions for pestilent

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pestilent pes·ti·lent

Spelling: [pes-tl-uh nt]

IPA: /ˈpɛs tl ənt/

Pestilent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 361 anagrams from letters in pestilent (eeilnpstt).

Definitions for pestilent

adjective

1. producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
2. destructive to life; deadly; poisonous.
3. injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious.
4. troublesome, annoying, or mischievous.

Origin of pestilent

1350-1400; Middle English Latin pestilent- (stem of pestilēns) unhealthy, noxious, alteration of pestilentus, equivalent to pesti- (stem of pestis) pest + -lentus

Examples for pestilent

Severe laws have often been enacted, against these pestilent impostors.

Then he was liable to be seized and put to death as a pestilent heretic.

The true beggar, as I have said, is not often annoyed by these pestilent callers.

Never had I ventured into so pestilent and forbidding a place.

But how was this pestilent young cub of an Englishman to be got rid of?

American law to most of them is but a pestilent thing to be evaded.

She would have been out holiday-making (as I settled it) but for the pestilent rain.

The pestilent coxcomb has his uses, and his uses, like adversity's, are sweet.

I have little doubt that this scullery was a pestilent place.

Is it pestilent Machiuilian pollicie that thou hast studied?