perniciously
- a word derived from pernicious.
Example Sentences
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"We're all familiar with the Freudian idea that if we suppress our feelings or thoughts, then these thoughts remain in our unconscious, influencing our behaviour and wellbeing perniciously," said Professor Michael Anderson.
From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023
They are looking for signs of a perniciously quiet kind of infiltration.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2020
Yet the large number of people who watched it suggests misinformation spreads perniciously.
From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2020
And, perhaps most perniciously, grief is an amorphous, unpredictable thing: It can shapeshift forms on a dime — without warning and completely subconsciously, in such a sneaky way that you don't even know it's happening.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2019
He did both these things, poor man, for it was his rôle in life always to say and do the perniciously obvious.
From The Halo by Justice, B. Martin
