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What worries me about the Phoney Phils of this world is the amount of pernicous influence these phoney, fabricated mindsets of vested interest in political correctness have on the rest of us.

Racist Slur At Boris Newmania 2007

I have had my own encounters with these pernicous laws and urge everyone to read the details of the important parliamentary debate on the mattter last December.

The Growing Campaign on Libel 2009

So, leaving aside the type of breaches of private domain outlined above -- the acts of sacrilege, plagiarism, looting and swindling -- I see appropriation in its vague sense as not intrinsically pernicous but rather as insidious (and deeply so, I stress) only if-and-when it becomes a component of the system of prejudice, most notably when it functions with misrepresentation in, for example, a fetishistic feedback loop.

More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

This law has proved so much the more pernicous, as the Norwegians by their recruiting regulations have illoyally withdrawn from the Union-defence part of their fighting forces, by outrageously entering into the line a limited number only of the annual classes of recruits.

The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents Karl Nordlund

Chapter XXI: but following its pernicious example [pernicous] --, Monuments:

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

Lobbying dollars don't seem to be nearly as pernicous or corrupting Noprth of the border.

The Big Picture Barry Ritholtz 2010

Lobbying dollars don't seem to be nearly as pernicous or corrupting Noprth of the border.

The Big Picture 2010

Caffeine happens naturally in coffee, and it is not a pernicous drug.

Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2009

Be warned however that you could be getting a pernicous earworm from it.

Silicon Valley Sleuth 2009

However, there appears to be no mention of the pernicous, rash-like, effects of Ideological State Apparatuses:

Crikey » Canberra Calling 2009