pestilential

• Servility, meanness, venality, time-serving, and a disbelief in virtue diffused themselves over the nation like a pestilential miasma, the depressing influence of which was heavy, even upon those souls which individually resisted the poison. —  Milton
• I believe that the smoke of tobacco is anti-pestilential; this, added to the precaution of avoiding contact, and inhalation of the breath of the person infected, appears to be quite sufficient to secure a person from infection Aug. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
• The very breath of him was pestilential, and if it brought not imprisonment or death over such on whom it fell, it surely poisoned reputation, and left good Protestants arrant papists, and something worse than that, in danger of being put in the plot as traitors. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5
• It was like a pestilential rock dropped on earth. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
• I have been told that this precious scheme has been borrowed from China: a pretty fountain-head for moral and political improvement: and if so, I may say, after Petronius: 'This windy and monstrous loquacity has lately found its way to us from Asia, and like a pestilential star has blighted the minds of youth otherwise rising to greatness. —  Gryll Grange

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