Pernicious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERNICIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• destructive; ruinous; fatal
• having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
• Quick; swift (to burn).
• Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
• exceedingly harmful
• working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• highly injurious or destructiv; deadly

Words related to PERNICIOUS

perniciously19 perniciousness18

How to use PERNICIOUS in a sentence

• I doubt this, though I have no doubt that it would be pernicious.
• For this reason it is unnecessary to erect a new officer, as an inspector of our streets, since every office that is not necessary is pernicious.
• Pernicious counsels will have the same authority and influence as those which are sound.
• It may introduce among us those pernicious social theories which have proved so disastrous in other countries.
• In the next place, he will urge that it is discreditable or pernicious that he should be pardoned.
• We should, in that case, be compelled to acknowledge that it at least produces no pernicious effects on the intellectual and moral character of a people.
• Let me perish first, and from this hour avoid all sight and speech, and, if I can, all thought of that pernicious beauty.
• His Report, on the whole, is a mere appeal to the people, the pernicious consequences whereof to this monarchy cannot as yet be felt or foreseen.
• A partial elevation of ground, in an unhealthy district, has been proved to be more pernicious, than even the level itself.
• Wealthy, respectable, middle-aged citizens viewed with alarm and denounced pernicious agitation.
• The example of a leader like Blundell had a most pernicious effect upon the uprightness of the greater part of the company.
• When it was wanting, every excellency which he possessed became dangerous and pernicious to his kingdoms.
• So pernicious a thing is Wit, when it is not tempered with Virtue and Humanity.
• But, in a country already Christian, to bring so fundamental a point of faith into debate, can have no consequences that are not pernicious to morals and public peace.
• Everything is served on ice, and the ice-water, however pernicious the European may consider it as a drink, looks charming and cool in the hot rooms.
• The protective policy had been in operation in the United States for a much shorter period, and its pernicious effects were not, therefore, so clearly perceived and felt.
• That is the pernicious result of an unsatisfied claim for self-government.
• This pernicious high-art and culture-seeking fever has never caught my practical soul in its relentless grasp.
• How far this most pernicious and immoral system has been carried, may be seen by reference to the colonial expenditure for the four years anterior to 1816.
• But the maiden next encounters a more pernicious apparition than the black knight.
• The arguments against novels, in which the Quakers agree as a body, are taken from the pernicious influence they have upon the minds of those, who read them.
• He attributed the existence of the feud to his indiscretion and guilt, and reproached himself with all its pernicious consequences.
• This hath been attended with very pernicious consequences.

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