Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pernicious or hurtful manner; destructively; with ruinous tendency or effect.
- Maliciously; malignantly.
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- adverb In a
pernicious manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a noxiously baneful way
- adverb in a harmfully insidious manner
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Examples
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In truth there is little evidence that the banks are perniciously holding back loans and trying to drive the economy back into recession.
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It affects how we think about and talk about rape, perniciously affecting how we treat rape victims, how we prosecute rapists and how we try to prevent future rapes from occurring.
Chloe Angyal: Sex and Power, From North Carolina to Congo 2010
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His injury was the result of the same thing that caused Bell's death -- a botched undercover operation that probably shouldn't have been conducted in the first place, and more perniciously, the underlying systemic racism that leads to race-based assumptions and fear.
Tonya Plank: Officer Michael Carey Should Sue the NYPD Not the Sean Bell Estate 2010
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In the shadowy nether world of Internet political blogging -- where intrigue meets invective and rancid calumny is de rigeur -- one apocryphal New York blog stands ominously and perniciously alone.
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Jacques 'entire motivation, he added, had been perniciously commercial.
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Moreover, compared to those who perniciously enable systemic corruption by obsessing over the punishment of one person, I think Polanski's reaction to evident judicial misconduct is laudable.
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While elementary schools have shown progress on national achievement exams, high-school results have stayed perniciously low.
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It affects how we think about and talk about rape, perniciously affecting how we treat rape victims, how we prosecute rapists and how we try to prevent future rapes from occurring.
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Moreover, compared to those who perniciously enable systemic corruption by obsessing over the punishment of one person, I think Polanski\'s reaction to evident judicial misconduct is laudable.
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Moreover, compared to those who perniciously enable systemic corruption by obsessing over the punishment of one person, I think Polanski's reaction to evident judicial misconduct is laudable.
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