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pernicious

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He simply rode out the same blandly pernicious progressivism that elites in both parties embrace.

Even more pernicious is this: Look at who these men are actually contacting.

In the case of Hollywood actresses, too, this expectation takes on an even more pernicious dimension.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

I spoke to my students about mobilizing against this pernicious threat to our civilization.

It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.

In pernicious anemia they are always greatly diminished, and an increase should exclude the diagnosis of this disease.

Megaloblasts are found in pernicious anemia, and with extreme rarity in any other condition.

Pathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.

A few of these may be present in very marked leukocytosis or any severe blood condition, as pernicious anemia.

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On this page you'll find 102 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pernicious, such as: damaging, dangerous, deadly, destructive, detrimental, and devastating.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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