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Definition of pernicious in English: perniciousadjective pəˈnɪʃəspərˈnɪʃəs Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way. the pernicious influences of the mass media Example sentencesExamples - Instrumental rationality has had a particularly pernicious effect on the environment.
- The register will make an important contribution to tackling this pernicious evil.
- It also stands for the complete victory of the Buddhist Doctrine over all harmful and pernicious forces.
- At its most extreme whole economies are destroyed by its pernicious influence.
- In fact, it can actually be pernicious because it covers up a reality.
- Yet some faculty perceive the pernicious effects of these forms and want to end them.
- This new form of protectionism has an added pernicious quality.
- Yet this fear of the pernicious effects of property rights did not last for long.
- Outside of the identity principle, however, the correlation is both pernicious and ethically dubious.
- Trying to keep out the pernicious effects of popular culture is a losing battle.
- At the same time, the pernicious influence of new urban cultural patterns could share some of the blame for rural degeneration.
- Instead, they say, it is a pernicious and widespread cancer infecting the media and political classes across Europe.
- What worries me are the pernicious influences on athletes like him.
- He's correct that the right of jury nullification trumps any worries about the possible pernicious effects of the drug.
- Equally problematic is the pernicious effect of bad design on the environment.
- Over the past few months and years, some pernicious myths have started to become a little too popular.
- The trouble is that fear is almost as pernicious as perceived danger.
- Physiological laws can explain the harmful and pernicious effects of deep breathing.
- Just putting some healthier options on the menu doesn't counteract the more pernicious effect a large global corporation has.
- I pretend to teach young people about the pernicious effects of a total surveillance state.
Synonyms harmful, damaging, destructive, injurious, hurtful, detrimental, deleterious, dangerous, adverse, inimical, unhealthy, unfavourable, bad, evil, baleful, wicked, malign, malevolent, malignant, noxious, poisonous, cancerous, corrupting, ruinous, deadly, lethal, fatal literary malefic, maleficent archaic pestilent, pestilential, baneful, pestiferous
Derivatives adverb pəˈnɪʃəslipərˈnɪʃəsli That message is not only perniciously false, it is the hallmark of the totalitarian mindset. Example sentencesExamples - Their persistence perniciously influences mood and emotional regulation.
- For the public service, the affair demonstrates its fragility in the face of both ministers and, more perniciously, ministerial staffers.
- At my lowest point I weighed six and a half stone, was perniciously anemic and got sent home from university.
- She glares at me perniciously, and then turns her back, with a sharp exhalation, and her arms shaking firmly at her sides.
noun pəˈnɪʃəsnəspərˈnɪʃəsnəs That kind of double talk, that perniciousness should be stopped immediately. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, its perniciousness has spread well beyond startups.
- The true perniciousness of uncertainty is economic in origin and effect.
- However, geneticists began criticizing him for his antiscientific declarations regarding the perniciousness of genetics.
- Let us take the lead in recognising the perniciousness of an ethos that thinks it is destined to rule the world.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin perniciosus 'destructive', from pernicies 'ruin', based on nex, nec- 'death'. Rhymes adventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious Definition of pernicious in US English: perniciousadjectivepərˈniSHəspərˈnɪʃəs Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way. the pernicious influences of the mass media Example sentencesExamples - It also stands for the complete victory of the Buddhist Doctrine over all harmful and pernicious forces.
- What worries me are the pernicious influences on athletes like him.
- Over the past few months and years, some pernicious myths have started to become a little too popular.
- Physiological laws can explain the harmful and pernicious effects of deep breathing.
- The register will make an important contribution to tackling this pernicious evil.
- The trouble is that fear is almost as pernicious as perceived danger.
- I pretend to teach young people about the pernicious effects of a total surveillance state.
- Yet this fear of the pernicious effects of property rights did not last for long.
- Outside of the identity principle, however, the correlation is both pernicious and ethically dubious.
- Instrumental rationality has had a particularly pernicious effect on the environment.
- This new form of protectionism has an added pernicious quality.
- Equally problematic is the pernicious effect of bad design on the environment.
- Just putting some healthier options on the menu doesn't counteract the more pernicious effect a large global corporation has.
- He's correct that the right of jury nullification trumps any worries about the possible pernicious effects of the drug.
- At the same time, the pernicious influence of new urban cultural patterns could share some of the blame for rural degeneration.
- Trying to keep out the pernicious effects of popular culture is a losing battle.
- In fact, it can actually be pernicious because it covers up a reality.
- Yet some faculty perceive the pernicious effects of these forms and want to end them.
- At its most extreme whole economies are destroyed by its pernicious influence.
- Instead, they say, it is a pernicious and widespread cancer infecting the media and political classes across Europe.
Synonyms harmful, damaging, destructive, injurious, hurtful, detrimental, deleterious, dangerous, adverse, inimical, unhealthy, unfavourable, bad, evil, baleful, wicked, malign, malevolent, malignant, noxious, poisonous, cancerous, corrupting, ruinous, deadly, lethal, fatal
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin perniciosus ‘destructive’, from pernicies ‘ruin’, based on nex, nec- ‘death’. |