1. Adjective
Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.
2. Adjective
Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.
3. Adjective
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air" - Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
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