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harmful or something spreading harm — especially in a gradual or subtle way
- But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.Part 2 — A Voyage to Brobdingnag (74% in)
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