pernicious
Example Sentences
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He said conversion practices could be "particularly pernicious" in a church setting.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2026
Patients with pernicious anemia who had been close to death often improved dramatically within weeks of eating liver-rich diets.
From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026
It would be unfair to depict Greenspan’s influence as invariably pernicious.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
This is part of what makes ’90s-summer idealization so pernicious, says Erika.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026
And yet a pernicious seed had been planted—a perception of me as disgruntled and vaguely hostile, lacking some expected level of grace.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing pernicious
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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