Adjective : pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie. ,a pernicious disease. From Dictionary.com.
This makes the narcissist perniciously exploitative. From Wordnik.com. [Narcissism in the Boardroom] Reference
And perniciously the question arose, which is more real?. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Mirror] Reference
Poison Ivy plagued us perniciously last year in a new corn bed. From Wordnik.com. [Poison Ivy « The Life and Times of Organic Mama] Reference
Jacques 'entire motivation, he added, had been perniciously commercial. From Wordnik.com. ['Tome raider' jailed again for stealing valuable books] Reference
These two things mutually and perniciously complete and assist each other. From Wordnik.com. [This Looks Important, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It has always seemed to me as if this system must at times work perniciously. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
And Stone was perniciously wrong about the Korean War read the whole article. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: "Pas d'ennemis à gauche": The great failure of I.F. Stone] Reference
But only after first removing the thug, who has so perniciously enabled the punk. From Wordnik.com. [Put on the Spot, Our Punk President Lies Yet Again] Reference
Do not demand that perniciously angry Palestinians be allowed to return to Israel. From Wordnik.com. [The left side of the Middle East argument] Reference
To me, that demand is a perniciously foul sacrifice to the gods of political correctness. From Wordnik.com. [Here's the post where I take on Ron Bailey of Reason Magazine.] Reference
Even more perniciously, these interchange fees are totally invisible to credit card customers. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bank of America to Impose Annual Fees on Transactional Users Credit Cards:] Reference
Where that conventionality became noticeable, some came to regard it as perniciously artificial. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-07] Reference
The Vehdna doctrine is the most perniciously anti-female of Taglios 'cults but the most flexible as well. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams of Steel]
Certain physiological processes come to have for him an unclean flavour which is yet perniciously attractive. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
The Devil interfered perniciously in the course of nature, in sickness and pestilence, failure of crops and famine. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
An urbanite will perniciously promulgate the sordid story behind the scenes characterizing Benjamin as a "bad" kid. From Wordnik.com. [Anne M. Plant: Making Peace with Rednecks] Reference
In the discussion of what he described as the ˜perniciously lax™ morality of the Jesuits, in the Provincial Letters. From Wordnik.com. [Blaise Pascal] Reference
Labor needs to transition from where the cul-de-sacs where the bubble perniciously lured to where it can add real value. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Sky series: The anonymous hedge-fund manager's plan] Reference
The bitterest and longest-lasting east-wind acts less perniciously on body and soul than does the society of Mr. Snarling. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
While elementary schools have shown progress on national achievement exams, high-school results have stayed perniciously low. From Wordnik.com. [Scores Stagnate at High Schools] Reference
About 1% of the population suffer from the perniciously debilitating and all-pervasive mental health disorder, schizophrenia. From Wordnik.com. [And Then There Were Too Many] Reference
If, however, you do want to learn about how perniciously deceptive these kinds of studies are and how to analyze them, read on. From Wordnik.com. [More statin madness | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Moreover, it was evident from the frank friendliness of his dark, gray eyes that he was perniciously of that type who frolic through. From Wordnik.com. [Jimsy The Christmas Kid] Reference
So we have ministers of state preaching the left wing idealism that has perniciously taken over all wellsprings of power within Europe. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In truth there is little evidence that the banks are perniciously holding back loans and trying to drive the economy back into recession. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury whinge at banks won't pull us from the mire] Reference
Many are seduced to their ruin by the contagion of evil example; nor is any other more perniciously prevalent than that of a parent, or progenitor. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
Most perniciously, markets invade the doctor-patient relationship, which should be based on trust, and turn it into a provider-consumer relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Political Union: YPU debates "Resolved: Repeal Obamacare" with Karl Rove (2010/09/07)] Reference
Yet it is easily proved to be nothing more or less than a perniciously sensational newspaper production, too utterly false, too cruelly misleading, to merit credence. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
Finally, it had been explained to us that the remembrance of this abnormal treason had been underlying and perniciously influencing the whole course of Haytian national history. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
And probably I've behaved more foolishly and perniciously than ever you will. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference
For it seems that the more NIC officials say, the more intellectually empty and perniciously political they look. From Wordnik.com. [The Weekly Standard Blog] Reference
Just because someone is a dual citizen, doesn't mean that they are acting perniciously or have a conflict of interest. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
This is impossible, however perniciously these mental acquisitions are used; they still are acquisitions, and men cannot forget them. From Wordnik.com. ["Bethink Yourselves!"] Reference
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