Both Uses of
pernicious
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- To think that a man's opinions were wrong was for him no more to think less of the man than to think that a tree planted in the wrong place was wicked and pernicious.†
Chpt 5 *
- She grew more loving and tender than before and he thought that it had been good for her, his own puritanical ideas were wrong and pernicious.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(pernicious) harmful or something spreading harm -- especially in a gradual or subtle way