Sample Sentences forpernicious (editor-reviewed)
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She has been spreading the pernicious rumor.pernicious = harmful
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Pernicious, regulatory gridlock has already delayed the project for a decade.
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Every day since then on the radio we heard about the need to end the evil and pernicious influences of the "Four Olds": old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. (source)
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A most pernicious message indeed. (source)
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Maybe the gods will help us, thinking we are suitably respectful of pernicious fate. (source)pernicious = destructive (spreading harm)
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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)pernicious = harmful
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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
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Instead, they voided "excrement about the fields perniciously." (source)perniciously = in a harmful manner
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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)
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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)
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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)pernicious = harmful
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These two things mutually and perniciously complete and assist each other.† (source)
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In short order, Malan began to implement his pernicious program. (source)pernicious = harmful or destructive
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All the commons Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience, Wish him ten fathom deep.† (source)
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There were more pernicious results as well: (source)pernicious = harmful
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Something deeper, more pernicious was at work here: a wide division between the wealthy and the poor that was made worse by fear. (source)
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