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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