Pernicious

As the anecdote from the entryway to Shiffrin’s Colorado gym illustrates, a pernicious ego is not her problem.

Ghana is being squeezed by skyrocketing inflation and a bulging debt burden, and Akufo-Addo noted the impact of “pernicious developments” like the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has now become a pernicious trend which clearly has not been contained by the police or the judiciary.

Jailing Brown for three years and four months, Recorder John Ryder KC branded the sale of illegal drugs a ‘pernicious trade, which as you will well know leads to a spiral of misery’.

On March 17, the Biden administration to overturn an appeals court decision that can charitably be described as nuts, and accurately as pernicious.

We all need to be cognizant of the emergence of incubators and distributors of anti-Indian forces orchestrating pernicious narratives to downsize our growth trajectory and taint our functional democracy and constitutional institutions,” he said.

While everyone wants to know everything about Iran when they meet me, I’d say only 13 people have ever asked me about my Essex heritage, a fact that – weirdly – pisses me off more than the pernicious racist banter I’ve experienced in my life.

A lawyer whom prosecutors had described as “the most prolific, pernicious, and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history” earned clemency.

And that’s why Coates’ cartoonish understanding of Israel and the Palestinians is so pernicious.

Bypassing the primary for Biden was bad enough, deeply undemocratic, and completely pernicious.

From racially divisive obligations on employers to fulfil diversity quotas, to pernicious legislation to curtail criticism of Islamism, Labour has up its sleeve a raft of measures that will turbo-charge the woke revolution.

He insisted allegations of wrongdoing on his part were "pernicious, politically motivated and patently untrue".

However, collectively they are often the target of pernicious political campaigns and unfairly lumped together with the tiny groups of extremists who have carried out attacks much like that seen in Magdeburg at the weekend.

In recent years, scientists have discovered that is one of the most pernicious threats to human health and have shown it is involved in causing cancer, heart disease, diabetes, low birthrates, and many health conditions.

Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.

The constant thought is like, well, this person seems wonderful, but maybe there’s somebody better — I think can be really pernicious.

The Garda boss told a meeting of the Policing Authority in Limerick that in the past few years, threats and abuse towards elected politicians had become “a more pernicious problem”.

The importance is to have every point in his favour taken before a bench of distinguished international judges, hearing and deciding whether the pernicious Bush doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence plays any part in the law.

The Pernicious Pipsqueak is not concerned about any post-war tribunals at the Hague, because he's unlikely to survive losing his not-a-war.

The writer Victoria Smith wrote powerfully about the pernicious misogyny that affects older women in last year.