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Word of the Day – Pestilential

By July 21, 2017Word of the Day

Pestilential (adj)

pes-til-en-shal

Relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases.

Today’s WotD is a nod to Hemingway, who was born today in 1899. From The Sun Also Rises “Have you been in this pestilential city long?”

Example sentences

“He’s suffering from a pestilential fever!”

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