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pernicious

(= insidious, subtle) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way glaucoma is an insidious disease a subtle poison (= baneful) exceedingly harmful

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Most pernicious woman.
This is a cruel and pernicious world we live in.
Susan is great in telling about pernicious anaemia.
A pernicious illness which caused her to pass away in a few hours.
And yet I call you servile ministers that will, with two pernicious daughters, join your high-engendered battles 'gainst a head as old and white as this. O, ho!
Pernicious nonsense!
In his writing, Plato tells of the death of Socrates, condemned for spreading pernicious religious doctrines to corrupt the young.
O most pernicious woman!
And perhaps that's the most pernicious program of all.
A dear happiness to women. They would acquire a pernicious suitor.
This is the most pernicious infective agent I've ever seen.
There's some belief that they don't even have a legitimate claim to the space. that they're nothing more than pernicious, odious vandals, in which case, diplomacy would fall on deaf ears.
Thankyou. - You'd never believe it. but after 10 days of pernicious fever, she has been restored to health, to the world of the living.
You vile, pernicious, disgusting little harlot.
The most useful and germane criticisms came as usual from those who have closely researched Session Three and its pernicious effects on the European Landscape.
Pernicious inclusion of fictional character.
If he say so, may his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day!
As for those pesky, pernicious and putrid poachers, Max and Thor. they awaited their fate in the Bujumbura jail.
I thought you started out the day with that pernicious caffeine.
We will be relying on your resolve. to withstand some of the more pernicious side effects.
If he say so, may his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day.
Nowadays many people don't know the names of heroes of revolution. The pernicious NEP!
I hate to mention the climate: it's horrible, it'll be pernicious for you.
I can only conclude that your people are the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that ever nature suffered to crawl upon the face of the Earth.
It's a form of pernicious anaemia which affects the chelonian family.
And an even more pernicious menace, the roadside brothel.
Stop that pernicious Doctor!
We can pick up right where I left off in 1999 When I had pernicious anemia.
Cos let me tell you, this is some really pernicious shit.
I mean, this thing's a lot more pernicious than you think.
I can recite the six causes of pernicious anemia and the four stages of terminal cirrhosis.

News and current affairs

Pernicious talk that Arabs do not want democracy has been exposed as the big lie it is.
Many of these pernicious side effects can already be perceived.
But there is something that the EU should fear: destitution within its borders and the pernicious consequences for the continent's politics and society.
A few days later, once the powers-that-be realized that the Greek government was about to capitulate fully to the troika's demands, they saw fit to impose upon Greece their demeaning, unimaginative, and pernicious Treuhand model.
The problem with legal measures, however, is that they can have pernicious side effects and unintended consequences, especially when they are tailored to a particular crisis.
If this inflation is allowed to continue and deepen, it is likely to have effects easily as pernicious as the exchange-rate appreciation the region's leaders are striving so hard to avoid.
This double standard was particularly pernicious in the Middle East, where Palme never censured an Arab country, regardless of its corruption or cruelty.
But it has become burdened with another, more pernicious notion: as departures from the Arrow-Debreu model become more realistic, and thus more complex, they become less suitable for the classroom.
Some additional effects are even more pernicious.
But it is misleading to attribute the failure of the Palestinians to develop an orderly system of self-government only to the pernicious effects of Israeli occupation and American policies.
But monopolies of wealth are just as pernicious.
He sees the failings of liberalism as particularly pernicious in postcommunist countries.
Such distinctions were not merely pernicious; they were often characterized by an unequal distribution of the resources of the state within a colonial society.
Third, Mr. Zhu said he would streamline the central government and take on one of China's most pernicious problems: high-level corruption in government agencies.
It must avoid the pernicious ethnic nationalism of recent years that led to one ethnic group being banned from running in the presidential election.
In Russia, too, the fallout is pernicious.

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