Pernicious

/pəˈnɪʃəs/

Synonyms for "pernicious" (88 found)

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disease stateharmful attributehazardous agentmedical conditionnegative qualitytoxic substance

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corrupting normcultural biasharmful traditionlethal diseasemalignant tumorpoisonoustoxictoxicanttoxin

Collocations

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pernicious effectpernicious influencepernicious liepernicious practicepernicious rumorpernicious stereotype

Inflections

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more perniciousmost pernicious

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The Displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter, by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is — second only to American political campaigns — the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

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Pervasive and pernicious deviations from both fact and logical validity lurked behind a meretricious plausibility.

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I think that the romantic myth is one of the most pernicious of our times.

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The essay itself isn't a problem, but all these pernicious questions and glossary make me awfully mad!

Source: tatoeba (3495511)

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