perniciousness
IPA: pɝnˈɪʃʌsnʌs
noun
- The condition of being pernicious; destructiveness
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Examples of "perniciousness" in Sentences
- His book develops into a sustained polemic about the perniciousness of the British class system.
- See now the perniciousness of the claim that the anti-Ahmadi law represent "democratic discourse"?
- But I'd imagine none of this fits with the narrative of Blairite disloyalty and perniciousness Milne had decided upon before he began writing his column.
- And he objected to long-term public debts in part because they bound more than one generation, a doctrine which Hamilton rightly attacked for its “perniciousness and absurdity.”
- Scenes of extreme mourning for Kim in the streets of Pyongyang again brought home the perniciousness of lies in such regimes, as I was reminded of Mao Zedong's death 35 years earlier.
- Eventually, Eco gets to the literary heritage of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and how that fiction's perniciousness was reinforced by fitting a pre-existing narrative pattern that had wormed its way into popular consciousness.
- "perniciousness" with which they were reproached was nothing else but their opposition to the established polytheism; and this view of the matter was just such an one as might be expected to occur to a mind which held the sect in too much contempt to concern itself about the grounds and reasons of their conduct.
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