pestilent

• It was as if he were possessed by a malevolent spirit of misery that had briefly departed, only to come roaring back to him and seize occupancy once more, like a pestilent squatter. —  Spider-Man2
• The flies are pestilent - incredibly noisy, intrusive, and disgusting - and oh, such swarms! —  Letters from the Cape
• We see something of its probable character in the supreme contempt of the monkish chroniclers; in the heretical epithet of "pestilent" applied to her; in the Lollard terms of her last will; in her choice of eminent Lollards as executors; in her bosom friendship with the Lollard Queen But at another Table from that of Simon the Pharisee, "many that are first shall be last, and the last first We have kept Maude standing for a long while, before her mistress, seated in the great chair in Dame Agnes de La Marche's chamber And how lovest thy new fashion of life, my maid?" —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
• The Squire cherished a traditional regard for its old festivities, not only by reason of a general festive inclination that was very strong in him, but from a desire to protest in a quiet way against what he called the pestilent religious severities of a great many of the parish, who ignored the day because it was a high holiday in the Popish Church, and in that other, which, under the wing of Episcopacy, was following, in their view, fast after the Babylonish traditions. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
• Her books were denounced as pestilent, and the public advised against maintaining her acquaintance. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.

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