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virulent
1. adj. (chiefly medicine, of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant or deadly.
2. adj. Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.
The politicians were virulent in their hatred of the president.

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The new bug is more virulent than the garden variety strain.

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