Sentence example with the word 'pernicious'

pernicious

baleful, corrupting, death-bringing, detrimental, fatal, internecine, malevolent, mischievous, pestiferous, ruinous, toxic, vicious

Definition adj. exceedingly harmful

Last update: June 19, 2015


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Smoking is pernicious to health.   [adjective]

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There was general agreement that the phrase youth apathy is a pernicious misnomer.   [adjective]

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Some people have a medical problem called pernicious anemia in which vitamin B 12 is not absorbed from the intestine.   [adjective]

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It seemed to her serious mind that the glory of those wild years since his Majesty's restoration was a delusive and pernicious brightness which could never shine again.   [adjective]

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And yet social reformers are busy promulgating the idea that it is not necessary and is even pernicious and immoral for every man separately to work out his own freedom.   [adjective]

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We regard as unjust and pernicious the distribution of landed property, but we are obliged to submit to it.   [adjective]

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All discussion of the possibility of re-establishing peace instead of everlasting war--is the pernicious sentimentality of phrasemongers.   [adjective]

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But however powerful this hypnotic influence may be, it is not the chief nor the most pernicious activity of the Church.   [adjective]

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