Definition of pernicious

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Pernicious (a.) Quick; swift (to burn).

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Damnable :: Damnable (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Bale :: Bale (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury..
Deleterious :: Deleterious (a.) Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example..
Invasion :: Invasion (n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease..
Balefully :: Balefully (adv.) In a baleful manner; perniciously.
Wicked :: Wicked (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
Ruinous :: Ruinous (a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project..
Worst :: Worst (a.) Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse..
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious..
Blast :: Blast (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight..
Pestilential :: Pestilential (a.) Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.
Malignity :: Malignity (n.) Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud..
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers..
Scathful :: Scathful (a.) Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.
Noxious :: Noxious (a.) Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples..
Misbegotten :: Misbegotten (p. a.) Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.
Destructive :: Destructive (a.) Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth..
Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
Blasting :: Blasting (n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause..
Baleful :: Baleful (a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
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