pestilential: adj. (word coming from pestilence, “temptation, opportunity to sin” from the Latin pestilentia, from pestis “epidemic”).
The adjective "Pestilent" is said of something that spreads a foul odor.
Quote from the Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda (1949-2020): "A few drops then a pestilential runoff mingled with the water that entered through the tears in the hull of the canoe" in the Old man who read love novels ( 1988)....
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