pernicious
IPA: pɝnˈɪʃʌs
adjective
- Causing much harm in a subtle way.
- Causing death or injury; deadly.
- (of a person) Insidiously villainous: intending to cause harm, especially in a subtle way.
- (obsolete) swift; celeritous.
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Examples of "pernicious" in Sentences
- Roth is scabrous, not pernicious.
- The effect is pervasive and pernicious.
- The influence is pervasive and pernicious.
- The desire to make WP into a tabloid is pernicious.
- Uncertainty may be either pernicious or propitious.
- It skews consumption and investment in pernicious ways.
- The call for skeptical examination is hardly pernicious.
- His effect on the editing community has been pernicious.
- The second is that his influence is pernicious and malignant.
- It is wholly unacceptable, the most pernicious sort of malignity.
- The posterolateral spinal tracts are involved with pernicious anemia.
- It is time to undertake the reform of what I call a pernicious prejudice.
- Yet more pernicious is the result when that worldview is encoded, unquestioned, systemic.
- My eyes overflow, my dear Pauline; and Maitland will chide me for indulging what he calls a pernicious sensibility.
- Lane suggests that idea of dramatizing this tale — “a low-grade musing on atrocity, garnished with erotic titillation” — was “pernicious from the start.”
- The most pernicious is Proposition 25, which is being sold as a good government measure to end the state's annual fiscal follies and pass a budget on time.
- Presumably, what makes political networks so pernicious is not their personal sex life, but the very real damage they do to their states in the form of myopic and self-aggrandizing lawmaking, incompetent appointees, and a perversion of our democratic institutions.
- Progressives are too eager to believe that national health care will make it possible to expand coverage while reducing costs — reducing deficits, even! — apparently because all those costs are in pernicious “overhead,” which seems to be joining that political holy trinity “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
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