Sample Sentences for
pernicious
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  • Maybe the gods will help us, thinking we are suitably respectful of pernicious fate.  (source)
    pernicious = destructive (spreading harm)
  • There were more pernicious results as well:  (source)
    pernicious = harmful
  • While the pernicious little letter that had launched the inquiry in the first place was set on fire and dropped in the waste bin where it belonged.  (source)
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  • Its pernicious ghost—gray, furry and with unusually dense dorsal tufts—haunted every house that he ever lived in.  (source)
    pernicious = harmful or destructive
  • Instead, they voided "excrement about the fields perniciously."  (source)
    perniciously = in a harmful manner
  • I always filmed while sitting on the couch under her pernicious, unpredictable cuckoo clock, because I knew if I didn't show her cuckoo clock, she'd wonder whether I had finally gotten rid of her cuckoo clock,  (source)
    pernicious = harmful (evil)
  • and (4) television—the non-language and aboriginal grammar of commercials, commentators, sports announcers, athletes, assorted celebrities, and just about everyone on that word-mongering and word-mangling medium, that sucks in victims far more perniciously than radio ever did.†  (source)
  • A most pernicious message indeed.  (source)
    pernicious = harmful
  • These two things mutually and perniciously complete and assist each other.†  (source)
  • Early signs, in Somalia at least, are encouraging, and Molly is already wondering aloud whether the Tostan model could be used to help end other pernicious social customs such as honor killings.  (source)
  • All the commons Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience, Wish him ten fathom deep.†  (source)
  • In short order, Malan began to implement his pernicious program.  (source)
    pernicious = harmful or destructive
  • Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.  (source)
    pernicious = harmful over time
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