pernicious
Example Sentences
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High borrowing costs, he said, have had a pernicious impact on lower-income consumers without producing clear gains in inflation.
From Barron's
But if you use them as a lifestyle crutch, they can be pernicious.
From MarketWatch
Pancreatic cancer is pernicious, but five-year survival has increased three-fold since the 1990s to 13%, which the report attributes to more cancers being detected incidentally at earlier stages when they are easier to treat.
The obvious dark side of this line of research is that someone who understands how to boost well-being through memory manipulation could just as easily use the same knowledge for pernicious ends.
From Los Angeles Times
Head of the National Farmers' Union Tom Bradshaw welcomed the change, telling BBC Radio 5 Live it "takes out many family farms from the eye of pernicious storm".
From BBC
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