pernicious
causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings;a pernicious lie.
deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease.
Obsolete. evil; wicked.
Origin of pernicious
1Other words for pernicious
Other words from pernicious
- per·ni·cious·ly, adverb
- per·ni·cious·ness, noun
- un·per·ni·cious, adjective
- un·per·ni·cious·ly, adverb
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How to use pernicious in a sentence
We will pursue every legal avenue we can to block this pernicious law.
Opinion | Why LGBTQ people should fear new Texas abortion law | Kathi Wolfe | July 23, 2021 | Washington BladeTo his credit, Rhodes does not pretend to have all of the answers about how to stop such pernicious trends.
A three-pronged examination into what happens to America next | Beverly Gage | June 11, 2021 | Washington PostIt is this government subsidy in the form of tax-exempt treatment that is really pernicious.
How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare (Ep. 456) | Stephen J. Dubner | April 1, 2021 | FreakonomicsDriven to solve deep, pernicious and socially significant problems, but with an embedded pragmatism, Damo is keen to keep growing far out from its parent’s shade.
In pursuit of pragmatic solutions to pervasive problems | Francesca Fanshawe | March 31, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewLast February, according to NPR, China’s legislature started taking steps to “uproot the pernicious habit of eating wild animals.”
No one can find the animal that gave people covid-19 | Antonio Regalado | March 26, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
He simply rode out the same blandly pernicious progressivism that elites in both parties embrace.
Even more pernicious is this: Look at who these men are actually contacting.
Heartache by the Numbers and OkCupid’s Founder Has Got Yours | Will Doig | October 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the case of Hollywood actresses, too, this expectation takes on an even more pernicious dimension.
Jennifer Lawrence Shouldn’t Laugh Off Her Nude Photo Hack | Samantha Allen | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
Pierce Brosnan’s Life After Bond: From Action Hero to Losing His Daughter to Cancer | Tim Teeman | July 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI spoke to my students about mobilizing against this pernicious threat to our civilization.
It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIn pernicious anemia they are always greatly diminished, and an increase should exclude the diagnosis of this disease.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddMegaloblasts are found in pernicious anemia, and with extreme rarity in any other condition.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddPathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddA few of these may be present in very marked leukocytosis or any severe blood condition, as pernicious anemia.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
British Dictionary definitions for pernicious
/ (pəˈnɪʃəs) /
wicked or malicious: pernicious lies
causing grave harm; deadly
Origin of pernicious
1Derived forms of pernicious
- perniciously, adverb
- perniciousness, noun
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