pestilentiallyadv.
/ˌpɛstᵻˈlɛnʃl̩i/, /ˌpɛstᵻˈlɛnʃəli/, U.S. /ˌpɛstəˈlɛn(t)ʃəli/ In the manner of a pestilence or infectious disease; pestilently.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adverb]
uncleanlyc1438
unwholesomelyc1455
pestilentially1643
unhealthily1644
deleteriously1657
unhealthfully1677
unphysically1751
unhygienically1861
1643 A. Tuckney Balme of Gilead 35 Englands present disease..is grown pestilentially malignant.
1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxix. 246 A degradation as amounts..to a Plague-sore in affairs, and becomes pestilentially infectious.
1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward ii. 107 Folly and prejudice have spread themselves so pestilentially among all ranks and denominations.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 2 417 Useless, nay, pestilentially unclean.
1866 E. Marcy & F. Hunt Homœpathic Med. I. 590 Diseases commonly contagious or infectious within short distances..are then said to become epidemic, pestilentially prevalent.
1914 H. James Notes on Novelists 260 It was given that epic genius [sc. Tolstoy] most to serve admirably as a rash adventurer and a ‘caution’, and execrably, pestilentially, as a model.
1986 Punch 25 June 41/1 London [is in part] pestilentially occupied by petty thieves and assorted rip-off artists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1643- tell where to get off
- tell where to go
- tell where to put
- tell where to put something
- tell worlds
- tell you what
- tell, make, hold, set great store of
- tell, make, hold, set little store of
- tell, make, hold, set no store of
- tell, make, hold, set store of
- tell-
- tell-a-story
- tell-all
- tell-box
- tell-card
- tell-cause
- tell-clock
- tell-fare
- tell-love
- tell-pie
- tell-pie-tit
- tell-piet
- tell-tale-tit
- tell-truth
- tellable