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Pernicious meaning

  1. Causing much harm in a subtle way.
  2. Causing death or injury; deadly.
  3. Insidiously villainous: intending to cause harm, especially in a subtle way.

Using Pernicious

  • The main meaning on this page is: Causing much harm in a subtle way. | Causing death or injury; deadly. | Insidiously villainous: intending to cause harm, especially in a subtle way.
  • Useful related words include: harmful, baneful, deadly, pestilent.
  • In the example corpus, pernicious often appears in combinations such as: the pernicious, most pernicious, of pernicious.

Context around Pernicious

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Pernicious

  • In this selection, "pernicious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, orchestrating, prolific, completely, ego, trend and trade stand out and add context to how "pernicious" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a more pernicious problem and about the pernicious misogyny that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "pernicious" sits close to words such as abacha, acetate and adl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with pernicious

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Bypassing the primary for Biden was bad enough, deeply undemocratic, and completely pernicious. (13 words)

Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages. (13 words)

And that’s why Coates’ cartoonish understanding of Israel and the Palestinians is so pernicious. (15 words)

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. (45 words)

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. (37 words)

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. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

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

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.

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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.

After all, here was someone who has felt the icy grip of this pernicious disease, which left him face down in an intensive care unit with doctors pumping oxygen into his struggling lungs.

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Common combinations with pernicious

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "pernicious" in a sentence?
An example: "As the anecdote from the entryway to Shiffrin’s Colorado gym illustrates, a pernicious ego is not her problem." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "pernicious" from authentic English texts.
What does "pernicious" mean?
Pernicious means: Causing much harm in a subtle way.
What are synonyms of "pernicious"?
Common synonyms of "pernicious" include: harmful, baneful, deadly, pestilent, noxious, insidious, subtle.
How many example sentences with "pernicious" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "pernicious", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.