Pes`ti·len'tial adjective [ Confer French pestilentiel .] 1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. 'Sends the pestilential vapors.' Longfellow. 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. « So pestilential , so infecti... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/65
pestilential Relating to or tending to produce a pestilence (disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating). Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1615/