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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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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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A most pernicious message indeed. (source)
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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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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)
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Similarly, the pioneer of public education in Massachusetts, Horace Mann, believed that working students too hard would create a "most pernicious influence upon character and habits. Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by over-stimulating the mind." (source)pernicious = harmful
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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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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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These two things mutually and perniciously complete and assist each other.† (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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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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One of the most pernicious factors, Olmsted found, was the widespread fear that anyone who ventured to Chicago would be "fleeced unmercifully," especially in the fair's many restaurants, with their "extortionate" prices. (source)
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