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How to pronounce pernicious in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms insidious, subtle
Derivation perniciousness
Type Words
Synonyms baneful, deadly, pestilent
Derivation perniciousness

Examples of pernicious

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Denying the fact of identity makes us vulnerable to its most pernicious effects.
From the washingtonpost.com
Judged by results, it may be win-win, borrowed virtue, delusional or pernicious.
From the economist.com
Don't flatter yourself that you're immune to the pernicious power of the group.
From the businessweek.com
This tax is especially pernicious because it is assessed on sales, not profits.
From the forbes.com
What I care about is this pernicious piece of legislation is thrown out but good.
From the guardian.co.uk
If you don't stop your car driving evil habits, you are a pernicious hypocrite.
From the guardian.co.uk
I've control c and veed the below, on account of a pernicious case of laziness.
From the guardian.co.uk
These are all false, but it's the last of these myths that is the most pernicious.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Mervyn King has finally worked out that at its heart Neo-Liberalism is pernicious.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Baneful: exceedingly harmful
  • Insidious: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
  • (perniciously) insidiously: in a harmfully insidious manner; "these drugs act insidiously"
  • (perniciously) banefully: in a noxiously baneful way; "this banefully poisoned climate"
  • (perniciousness) grave harmfulness or deadliness
  • Causing much harm in a subtle way; Causing death or injury; deadly
  • (perniciousness) The condition of being pernicious; destructiveness
  • Causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful.
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