pernicious
adjective
causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful.
unpernicious
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a word derived from
pernicious.
Example Sentences
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It becomes a mere mummied fly, preserved in amber; unsightly perhaps; but unpernicious.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
