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# pestilent

«pestilent» in Mova's school dictionary: **Causing disease or illness, carrying plague** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Causing disease or illness, carrying plague. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#m1)

2) Very annoying or troublesome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a pestilent king or wind is an evil nuisance

### examples

- The pestilent air made the people sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#x1)
- That pestilent fly kept buzzing round my head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pestilent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.