perniciouslyadv.
/pəˈnɪʃəsli/, U.S. /pərˈnɪʃəsli/ In a pernicious manner; harmfully; insidiously; wickedly.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
wrothec888
unrighteouslyeOE
foullyOE
naughtlyOE
wrothlyc1200
litherlya1225
unwraste?c1225
illc1275
vilelyc1290
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
unwrastlyc1320
viciouslya1325
diverselyc1325
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
badlyc1405
foula1425
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
noughtily1528
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
illy1549
naught1549
bad1575
evilly1581
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
piggishly1756
iniquitously1796
pervertedly1804
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adverb]
ruinouslyc1450
perniciously1533
consuminglya1542
wastefully?1567
locust-like1596
fatallya1616
extinctively1633
destructively1661
shatteringly1818
destroyingly1820
corrosively1831
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adverb] > harmfully or perniciously
pestilently1528
perniciously1533
deleteriously1657
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb]
wrothec888
litherlyc1050
foulOE
sinfullyc1175
quedelya1250
amissc1275
shrewdly13..
felonly1303
wickedly1303
wickc1330
wickly1338
lewdlyc1384
wickeda1400
mischievouslyc1426
felonously1436
felonmentc1470
wickedfullyc1480
villainously1484
meschantlya1492
sinisterly1491
naughtily?1529
perniciously1533
naughtly1575
unsela1583
nefariously1599
scelerately1632
improbously1657
queerly1699
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. i. f. clxxxviv I haue not therby pernycyousely..peruerted and destroyed the pure sense of goddes holy worde.
c1559 R. Hall Life Fisher in J. Fisher Wks. (1876) II. p. xxxviii Vsing his seditious booke pernitiously penned to catch the ignorant sort.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. i. 51 All the Commons Hate him perniciously, and o' my Conscience Wish him ten faddom deepe. View more context for this quotation
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 86 [They] who in pursuance therof so perniciously would betray us.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 157 This doctrine was insipidly and perniciously urged by some.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. ii. 68 Never was a noble country so perniciously neglected.
1828 W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 26 A principle essentially and perniciously erroneous.
1918 Science 13 Dec. 587/2 Like all fatalistic doctrines, it would perniciously affect human conduct.
1998 Amer. Hist. Rev. 103 1580/2 Early modern Europeans invented perniciously enduring stereotypes about Indians.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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