pestilential
a. 瘟疫的, 有害的, 传播疾病的, 讨厌的, 恼人的 [医] 疫病的
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)
1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act V, p. 63, What do you fear? Why do you shun me thus. […] I am not Pestilential, nor Leaprous.
1941, J. Chapman Miske, “The Thing in the Moonlight” in H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb and Other Tales, New York: Ballantine, 1970, p. 187, Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)
pestilential fever; pestilential sweating
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)
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Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).
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Causing irritation or annoyance.
比喻1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 165, March 1899, Chapter 2, p. 480, […] a species of wandering trader—a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.
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From Latin pestilentialis, from pestilentia.
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