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List of antonyms from "pessimistic" to antonyms from "petrifaction"


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Definition of the day : « pestilence »

  • noun epidemic
Example sentences :
  • The second power of vulgarity is obscenity, and this vice is like the pestilence.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • How is it that some pestilence does not carry off all these poor people?
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Yet it had sufficed that the nations should flock there for a pestilence to break out.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • "Avoid it like a pestilence, monsieur," he answered promptly.
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The proof of the magic of Apollonius, who discovers the cause of this pestilence; 5th.
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • How did he know that this dog, or this man, was the cause of the pestilence which afflicted Ephesus?
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • And this house was shunned as though marked with the cross of the pestilence.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Cotton and indigo have ruined more men than famine and pestilence.
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • More pitiful sights could be occasioned only by a famine or pestilence.
  • Extract from : « Peter the Hermit » by Daniel A. Goodsell