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· pestilent
adjective
exceedingly harmful
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
"a pestilential malignancy in the air"
Similar words
baneful
deadly
pernicious
pestiferous
pestilential
plaguey
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).