How To Use Pernicious In A Sentence

An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above; but as the former are pernicious, and the latter innocent and even necessary, this is the reason of the very different reception they meet with from the world. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
In the case of marriage, calling SSM discriminatory or segregationist represents either a failure to adequately recognise the sexuality of the individual involved or more perniciously to regard that distinction as immaterial or undeserving of respect. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
This is a pernicious myth, no less wrong for being well meant. Times, Sunday Times

That relationship is what makes great art so powerful and art forgery so pernicious. Times, Sunday Times
Such a state of affairs could explain the responses in pernicious anemia obtained by feeding large amounts of autolyzed yeast-extract, as shown, for example, by Ungley. George R. Minot - Nobel Lecture
Just putting some healthier options on the menu doesn't counteract the more pernicious effect a large global corporation has.
How else to explain the chronic neglect of a program that effectively fights some of our most pernicious and recalcitrant social problems?
The first was entitled: "_Refutatio Samaritani Interim_, in quo vera religio cum sectis et corruptelis scelerate et perniciose confunditur -- Refutation of the Samaritan Interim, in which the true religion is criminally and perniciously confounded with the sects. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Pernicious worldly things are great enchantments, they are retinacula spei The Lord's Prayer
For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
It skews consumption and investment in pernicious ways. Matthew Yglesias » The High Cost of Subsidized Homeownership
In this study we evaluated the findings of follow up gastroscopies performed three years after primary gastroscopic screening of pernicious anaemia patients.
If caused by lack of intrinsic factor, condition called pernicious anaemia. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
While the arguments for implementation of e-voting in a country that has a perniciously rose-coloured view of its technological status in this tattered chapter of the Celtic Tiger, the practical difficulties are actually quite large.
The register will make an important contribution to tackling this pernicious evil.
Formerly slavery was looked upon as peculiarly pernicious to the diffusion of wealth and the progress of national greatness; now the South is intoxicated with ideas of the profitableness of slave labor, and the power of King Cotton in controlling the exchanges of the world. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
Finally, it had been explained to us that the remembrance of this abnormal treason had been underlying and perniciously influencing the whole course of Haytian national history. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
Some intrusive thoughts can be pernicious and unhelpful. Times, Sunday Times
The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
A high value would indicate a larger red blood cells such as in macrocytic anemia of a folacin deficiency or pernicious anemia from a B12 deficiency. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
If you suffer from medical conditions such as pernicious anaemia, you may be able to get the jab from your GP. The Sun
In 1918, the Chicago Motion Picture Commission heard evidence of the pernicious effect nickelodeons were having on America's youth.
It is mere fancy, it is a nullity, unless it be true, as I think it is, that it has been the source of great mischiefs to the world, in which case it cannot be termed a nullity, but something positively pernicious. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra
Unenforced law is a pernicious thing; resentment between neighbours is stirred; and nobody knows what to do. Times, Sunday Times
Ageism is equally as offensive and pernicious as sexism.
Though these people are not a direct threat to the combatant, their relationship with enemy combatants is seemingly pernicious.
The debate about the relative strengths of Israeli forces and the invading Arab armies is just part of a pernicious campaign to discredit the very real existential security concerns that Israel has had to deal with, continuously, since the pre-independence days as a nascent state. Matthew Yglesias » Five State Solution
History teaches us that unless these pernicious tendencies are scotched, they grow to become unmanageable monsters later on.
Certainly, all parties agreed on the pernicious effects of intemperance, and its tendency to promote domestic violence and discord.
Those who disagree are misled either by a warped view of history or a pernicious form of moral relativism. Times, Sunday Times
Eleven, even if it remains a dead law, it is not without its precipitant and pernicious consequences.
What disturbs me more is something subtler but more pernicious. Times, Sunday Times
lack of intrinsic factor can result in pernicious anemia
Ageism is equally as offensive and pernicious as sexism.
And were a civilized nation engaged with barbarians, who observed no rules even of war, the former must also suspend their observance of them, where they no longer serve to any purpose; and must render every action or recounter as bloody and pernicious as possible to the first aggressors. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
However, I can manage to cut off one of these pernicious tentacles of ignorance by referring to dear Strabo who had long ago alluded to a connection between the name Samos and words for 'high' Strab., Geo. How many fingers do you see?
There is one aspect of the bonus culture which is particularly pernicious. Times, Sunday Times
You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod. Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
The cuts in government funding have had a pernicious effect on local health services.
Because pernicious anemia can be hereditary, let your doctor know if you have a relative with the disorder so that he or she can test your blood every few years.
Physiological laws can explain the harmful and pernicious effects of deep breathing.
The most pernicious is Proposition 25, which is being sold as a good government measure to end the state's annual fiscal follies and pass a budget on time. The Tax Me More State
Well, Anil, I've got to say that it's not Super Extra Helpful To The Spirit of Reasoned Dialogue (SEHTSORD!) to characterize as unevolved the thinking of those of us (there must be at least two or three left) who are not 'zealots' but are deeply concerned about the pernicious influences of marketing and advertising on our cultures, online and off. Now here's what you need to know - Anil Dash
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
One of the most pernicious evils of contemporary BritKapital is to have lured the proletariat into limiting their potential to the pursuit of lumpen hedonism.
Laws of Manu or the Analects does not mean that I "venerate" European high culture; it just means that I know the origins of our regulative political ideals, and I think students should come broadly to know them, too -- and, since you persist in obscuring the point, it means that if emphasis on political correctness and multiculturalism in high school textbooks of history or politics, etc., is interfering with the acquisition of that knowledge, then that emphasis is pernicious. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
The need for gastroscopic follow up of pernicious anaemia patients is therefore still debated.
Ah, dualism; that left-brain/right-brain caricature is a pernicious one, isn't it? Spark plugs and transmissions
This is a pernicious myth. Times, Sunday Times
At its most pernicious level, this extends itself to careerism.
Economists have a pernicious model fetish, but that's better than merely verbal rhetoric that creates rather pointless debates that can be engaged endlessly without effect (sociology, post-modernism, Sokal and Social Text). Douglass North at Length, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Yes, I have wrestled back control of this blog from my pernicious Id and sleekit wee nyaff of a Self, sanity is restored, and all is well with the world. Whew!
In fact, it can actually be pernicious because it covers up a reality.
Putin has the opportunity to put an end to a number of Russian oligarchs, or at least to radically diminish their pernicious political role.
B - deficiency anaemia is called pernicious anaemia. The Family Nutrition Workbook
But the third, and most pernicious, level of dumbness is its pro-cyclical neo-Hooverite nature. Matthew Yglesias » Mike Pence Calls for Massive Anti-Stimulus
My eyes overflow, my dear Pauline; and Maitland will chide me for indulging what he calls a pernicious sensibility. The Unexpected Legacy
Pollution of the water supply reached a level pernicious to the health of the population.
Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place.
Behind the ivied walls, the more intellectually prestigious schools are making some pernicious compromises.
If you suffer from medical conditions such as pernicious anaemia, you may be able to get the jab from your GP. The Sun
The trouble is that fear is almost as pernicious as perceived danger.
Over the past decade and a half I’ve been braying to one and all about the pernicious effect that high-tech gadgetry is having on hunting. Uncategorized Blog Posts
Damned few folks who post in threads like this realize just how pernicious the goat-blowing culture is for progressives: and this thread (and every other one Anthony, Paulie Carbone, et al, participate in) proves it. Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum
The pernicious trend is to invite criticism. Times, Sunday Times
What worries me are the pernicious influences on athletes like him.
Yes, I have wrestled back control of this blog from my pernicious Id and sleekit wee nyaff of a Self, sanity is restored, and all is well with the world. Whew!
There be also books which are partly useful and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Areopagitica
She survived until 1934, dying from pernicious anaemia probably caused by radiation poisoning. Times, Sunday Times
Everything, from mugwumpery to the meddler's itch, from corns to crime, is now traced to the pernicious activity of some microbian. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
Proxy servers can be interposed between users and the web at large to insulate users from pernicious attacks via the web.
The first to his boss, Fred Fielding, on Feb. 3, 1984 denounced the notion of equal pay for comparable worth, saying It is difficult to exaggerate the perniciousness of the comparable worth theory. Printing: Judge Roberts's Slap at Women
Before we moved here, two pernicious weeds - bindweed and sticky-willie - had been allowed to establish themselves throughout the length of the hedge.
Just thinking about medieval Castile, which is the historical period and location I know best, Among the Visigoths adulterium (illicit sexual intercourse of many kinds) and stuprum (usually fornication with an unmarried woman or widow) were most serious matters and, while illegal sexual relations were an implicit danger in the grave offence of abduction, kidnapping for the purpose of matrimony was the pernicious offence in raptus. Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary » Read Enough Romances and Rape Is No Longer Rape » Print
Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Particularly pernicious examples of packaging are the flimsy plastic bags given out by stores in which to carry Stuff home, and single-serving bever age containers. THE STORY OF STUFF
They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
The pernicious trend is to invite criticism. Times, Sunday Times
Creature; so it prov'd a Misfortune to me; for hereupon my Mother prohibited me my Garret-Closet, and my Walk on the Leads; lest I should encounter more Adventures, not only like this, but perhaps more pernicious: So that being depriv'd of my solitary Retreat, your Ladyship cannot expect much of Verse or Poetick Fancies whereof to make A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
The pernicious theft of childhood in the pursuit of profits continues apace. The Sun
The pernicious theft of childhood in the pursuit of profits continues apace. The Sun
To his critics, he appeared to be a pernicious nihilist who threatened the very foundation of Western society and culture.
Sam — sometimes I think it has a really pernicious undercurrent: not that winsomeness is the only behavior the authors can conceive of, but that it’s the only positive one. The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists
This is less the case, however, when the motive is dissocial, such motives being generally less constant, as having reference to a particular, not a general, object; the religious motive, as being more constant, is more pernicious when it has a mischievous issue. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
There is a more pernicious red herring that needs to be smelled out forthwith.
The fundamental idea is that porridge, pulses, whole-grains and other hippie comestibles eliminate the hunger pangs born of sugar lows; they keep you satiated for longer, leaving you less open to the pernicious call of the fridge.
The couple were the victims of a pernicious form of identity theft - but with a twist. Times, Sunday Times
The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
In this scenario, which we call the new grief, children and their families must learn to live with things like the pernicious side effects of treatment, as well as a degree of uncertainty about the loved one's long-term survivability. Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: Tips for Talking to Children About Terminal Illness
The groundhogs have chewed through countless car wires and insulation, and have even been found by unsuspecting mechanics nestled under car hoods, still perniciously gnawing.
Frequently the pernicious "swab" is used to soak and so strengthen joint outlines of the sand before drawing patterns, in such cases as this. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898
And if he does believe it, is he not aware that he is propagating a pernicious myth of an avengeful Christian stereotype, that is as abhorrent as any other religious or racial stereotype? 'The Incomprehensible Holocaust': An Exchange
From _lolium_ the term Lollard given in reproach to the Waldenses, and the followers of Wickliffe, indicated that they were pernicious weeds choking and destroying the pure wheat of the gospel. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
The scale and complexity of the war exposed in Britain weak systems and the pernicious influence of patronage. The Times Literary Supplement
Indeed, it may be the very perniciously vague, equivocal, quasi-mystical, and/or ineliminably metaphorical imponderabilia of moral discourse that so troubles the error theorist. Moral Anti-Realism
Some cinquecento writers reflected on the fictiveness, pernicious sensuality, and compulsive force of the simulacrum, as it was identified in a long tradition stretching from late antiquity to the Reformation.
Outside of the identity principle, however, the correlation is both pernicious and ethically dubious.
They drink like fish, and manufacture a bad kind of arrack, the pernicious effects of which were experienced by the Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Another pernicious pest affecting house plants is scale, which appears as small lumps (either white, brown, pink or black) that form colonies on stems, on the underside of leaves and along the midribs.
They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
For John Gray, the Enlightenment idea of the soul progressing in tandem with technological advances is pernicious. 2009 August | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
UNM's Miller, for instance, complains that critics "have convinced a substantial portion of the educated public that evolutionary psychology is a pernicious right-wing conspiracy," and complains that believing in evolutionary psychology is seen "as an indicator of conservatism, disagreeableness and selfishness. Archive 2009-07-01
Linguistic precision is an important cause; anti-intellectualism is a pernicious one. Times, Sunday Times
Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) - for pernicious anemia only Chapter 31
I know by my own personal experience, that English books, published since our revolutionary war, have a pernicious tendency in anglifying the American character. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In Engla
It is now a magnes microcosmi, or a magnet for attracting diseases and properties, and if it be placed in close contact with a criminal or lunatic, it will be filled with his essence of life, and may then be used as a means of infecting other people with his pernicious qualities. The Sorcery Club
Sent to bishops throughout the world, the syllabus warned loyal Catholics everywhere of the pernicious doctrines which the pope had identified and anathematized.
Instrumental rationality has had a particularly pernicious effect on the environment.
We hope its pernicious influence is finally at an end. Times, Sunday Times
B - deficiency anaemia is called pernicious anaemia. The Family Nutrition Workbook
I did what I could, but her mother's influence was pernicious.
Without power of thought, what we call conscientiousness, or a desire to do right, shoots out into illusion, exaggeration, pernicious excess. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
But the schoolmen and casuists having too much philosophy to go about to clear a lie from that intrinsic inordination and deviation from right reason inherent in the nature of it, and yet withal unwilling to rob the world, and themselves especially, of so sweet a morsel of liberty, held that a lie was indeed absolutely and universally sinful; but then they held also, that only the pernicious He was a mortal sin, and the other two were only venial. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
Instead, they say, it is a pernicious and widespread cancer infecting the media and political classes across Europe.
“Calls for violence against homosexuals” would be a sign of extremism, no doubt, but is it equally pernicious to argue that homosexual acts are morally blameworthy? Britain
More recent findings indicate that hypergastrinaemia associated with pernicious anaemia leads to hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells.
Many rare but technologically important elements, such as tantalum and uranium, continue to be mined from poor regions of the world under conditions that some consider pernicious and hazardous.
Sent to bishops throughout the world, the syllabus warned loyal Catholics everywhere of the pernicious doctrines which the pope had identified and anathematized.
A little room in the shade hung with yellow matting, no chairs, but a wide divan at the far end, where a few Moors sat cross-legged or reclined, smoking long pipes of soothing kif, and eating the pernicious haschisch -- this constitutes a café. In the Tail of the Peacock
His error was in not wanting to recognise the pernicious effects of debt. Times, Sunday Times
At its most extreme whole economies are destroyed by its pernicious influence.
They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
The negative and cognitive symptoms are less dramatic but more pernicious.
These, the writer felt, should be shown whats what, presumably by being beaten, skinned alive, rold in bolling Tar and plac'd on a Rail, or in particularly pernicious cases, Hanged outright from there own Rooftrees. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
American researchers are currently performing experimental crosses between sorghum and johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense), a perennial forage that has already introgressed with sorghum to become a pernicious weed in the United States. 10. Sorghum: Specialty Types
In association with endocrine cell hyperplasia, gastric carcinoid tumours have been observed in 1-7% of pernicious anaemia patients screened by gastroscopy.
This will not be judged a pernicious doctrine, though some godly men do question the warrantableness of the example. Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion, by John Winthrop
Why not ban cold calling in its pernicious entirety? Times, Sunday Times
At its worst, it is a form of astroturfing, the pernicious practice of trying to trick people into thinking that has widespread support from ordinary members of the public.
The principle had been pernicious from beginning to end.
To listen to the erudite and cosmically conscious Monsieur Joly explain the tenets of biodynamics, the system of holistic agriculture based on the teachings of Austrian theosophist Rudolph Steiner, while walking the rolling hills of his vineyard on the north bank of the Loire, it's easy to be convinced that conventional agriculture is pernicious and that biodynamics is the future, if not necessarily to understand it in rational terms. Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
Off the campaign trail, the plait is to become summer's most pernicious beauty trend. Times, Sunday Times
The fundamental idea is that porridge, pulses, whole-grains and other hippie comestibles eliminate the hunger pangs born of sugar lows; they keep you satiated for longer, leaving you less open to the pernicious call of the fridge.
It has been found, for example, that artificial quinine-like bodies, which fluoresce and give the green color with chlorine water and ammonia, have antipyretic properties like quinine, but their secondary effects are so pernicious as to prevent their use. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
What disturbs me more is something subtler but more pernicious. Times, Sunday Times
The pernicious theft of childhood in the pursuit of profits continues apace. The Sun
Its corrosive effect on the sense of self is pernicious. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
And perhaps the pernicious influence of their new-found wealth reinvented and destabilised their bond with family and friends. The Sun
And because iniquity, etc. The word iniquity here seems to include the cruelty of the Jews and Romans in their persecutions; the betraying of Christians by those who professed to be such; and the pernicious errors of false prophets and others. Barnes New Testament Notes
Yeah. The pharmaceuticals companys purposely exaggerated the H1N1 epidemic situation and its perniciousness.
Yet this fear of the pernicious effects of property rights did not last for long.
Doom makes human folly appear at once more pernicious, and more endearing. The Times Literary Supplement
This notion that it is the lawyer's privilege, Mr Sheahan, is pernicious, wrong.
He has called for regulations to protect the Chinese language from the pernicious influence of foreign imports. Times, Sunday Times
She teaches executives to hunt down the source of a pernicious or juicy item of gossip and punish the rumour-monger. Times, Sunday Times
But our good intentions are rechanneled destructively by a grand narrative that is equal parts pernicious, inaccurate, and pervasive. Matthew Fraidin: Changing the Narrative of Child Welfare
Most pernicious consequences [would follow (?) _ -- illegible in MS_.] and many other districts would be disloyal and rebellious; and it would be necessary, when they should have sufficient religious instruction, to go back and win them and [_illegible in MS_.] anew. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
It had a pernicious fixation on their infant daughter. Christianity Today
Equally problematic is the pernicious effect of bad design on the environment.
Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place.
It overturns the national balance of parties, perpetuates a pernicious sectionalism, and deprives the South of that bipartizan rivalry which keeps open the currents of political life. The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization
The most widespread and pernicious influence on British culture is nostalgia. Times, Sunday Times
Their words infuse the air Britain breathes, serving just three press magnates whose pernicious influence corrodes all political discourse.
Whether you are subjected to the draconian structure of the military or that of our pernicious government, honest dissidence should always remain constant.
Those who disagree are misled either by a warped view of history or a pernicious form of moral relativism. Times, Sunday Times
The physician and herbalist John Gerard observed in 1597 that a pernicious crop-killer called dodder, or strangleweed, "changeth and altereth" according to its companion plants. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
But given the pernicious infighting in the sport, it may be some time before punters can fully benefit from a sensible review of outdated laws.
In association with endocrine cell hyperplasia, gastric carcinoid tumours have been observed in 1-7% of pernicious anaemia patients screened by gastroscopy.
They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
Its corrosive effect on the sense of self is pernicious. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
How can critical commentary 'mediate the radicalism' without itself performing a pernicious form of naturalisation in making it more accessible?
Eventually, Eco gets to the literary heritage of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and how that fiction's perniciousness was reinforced by fitting a pre-existing narrative pattern that had wormed its way into popular consciousness. A three pipe problem
People think this sort of colorblindness is a kind of progress, but I see it as more pernicious than that," says Tyrone Forman, an associate professor of African-American studies and sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago. USATODAY.com - New generation doesn't blink at interracial relationships
Smoke from factories, gasoline fumes from automobiles and poisonous chemical gases combine to form a pernicious soup in the air.
Fairy spirits [gallice _faées_]; by others also she has been taught and imbued with wicked and pernicious errors of such spirits, insomuch that in the trial before you she confessed that up to this time she did not know that Fairies were evil spirits. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
Because of the possibility of eventual neuronal death, the later neurologic consequences of pernicious anemia can be irreversible.
The classic disorder of malabsorption is pernicious anemia, an autoimmune disease that affects the gastric parietal cells.
Successive governments have ducked the pernicious effects of housing benefit. Times, Sunday Times
Presumably, what makes political networks so pernicious is not their personal sex life, but the very real damage they do to their states in the form of myopic and self-aggrandizing lawmaking, incompetent appointees, and a perversion of our democratic institutions. Hi, Larry Marchant! [UPDATED] | RedState
But a more subtle variety – all the more pernicious for their guise of ‘reasonability’ -- have taken over media that thinking people used to rely on for information, like National Public Radio and the New York Times Magazine. Lynn Parramore: Mr. Davidson's Planet: NPR/NYT Guru Adam Davidson's Discredited Economic Principles
But it has had two pernicious effects. Times, Sunday Times
I pretend to teach young people about the pernicious effects of a total surveillance state.
The truth is, he was an ardent probabiliorist, and from his point of view many of the opinions of the probabilists were lax and pernicious. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
A very pernicious urban myth, if that's in fact what it is. Times, Sunday Times
Trying to keep out the pernicious effects of popular culture is a losing battle.
How hebetudinous, and logic-challenged are those who perniciously, intoxicate, themselves and their neighbors with such poisonous products with affects every single person who inhales them? America And China; The Toxic Twins, One A Plutocracy, The Other a Toxic, Slave Labor Hypocrisy
Ordinary people around the world must try to resist the new imperialism which is just as pernicious as the old.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
For over a decade or more she has perspicaciously and relentlessly addressed the alarming developments in policing across the board, particularly on the subject of drug abuse and its pernicious role in the cultural decline of the West in general and the UK in particular. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
This is the agreeable potation, extolled by the Londoners, as the finest water in the universe — As to the intoxicating potion, sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdashed with cyder, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
She survived until 1934, dying from pernicious anaemia probably caused by radiation poisoning. Times, Sunday Times
Yet some faculty perceive the pernicious effects of these forms and want to end them.
Furthermore, the almost constant occurrence of achlorhydria in pernicious anemia, which appears usually long before the anemia and remains in spite of liver therapy, led me to wonder if this disorder of the digestive system had something to do with the condition which might be in the nature of a dietary deficiency disease. George R. Minot - Nobel Lecture
Civilization is pernicious also because it interposes a veil of artificiality between the individual and the natural objects of experience.
It is the most pernicious form of political correctness. Times, Sunday Times
Regular gastroscopy, if this could be achieved, would benefit pernicious anaemia patients.
The Coroner, in pointing the moral, condemned the sale at hucksters' shops of cheap, pernicious cigarettes and said the case should be a warning to boys addicted to cigarette smoking.
Meanwhile how about those deadly broom and mop handles, those pernicious charwomen should be on their KNEES! Klingon Control
At the same time, the pernicious influence of new urban cultural patterns could share some of the blame for rural degeneration.
More recent findings indicate that hypergastrinaemia associated with pernicious anaemia leads to hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells.
One could hardly ask for a better example of the legal realism he would so soon consider to be a pernicious and dangerous idea.
Thus, the Bank of England's suspension, known as the English Bank Restriction, set the pernicious example that inconvertible bank notes were as ‘good as gold,’ and furnished an abundant sea on which to float bonds.
Of the various masticatories which have been in general use, if we except opium, tobacco is unquestionably the most pernicious. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
Racism is a pernicious influence, but it's also a dangerous and painful accusation to level against someone.
For the last thirty-six years poor France had been afflicted with all sorts of pernicious things: that "sonority," the tribune; that hubbub, the press; that insolence, thought; that crying abuse, liberty: he came, and for the tribune, he substituted the Napoleon the Little
History teaches us that unless these pernicious tendencies are scotched, they grow to become unmanageable monsters later on.

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