Definition of pernicious

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Pernicious (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.

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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..
Bale :: Bale (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury..
Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
Damnable :: Damnable (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Invasion :: Invasion (n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease..
Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers..
Blast :: Blast (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight..
Misbegotten :: Misbegotten (p. a.) Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.
Worst :: Worst (a.) Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse..
Wicked :: Wicked (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
Pestilent :: Pestilent (a.) Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
Balefully :: Balefully (adv.) In a baleful manner; perniciously.
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..
Baleful :: Baleful (a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
Damageable :: Damageable (a.) Hurtful; pernicious.
Malign :: Malign (a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets..
Scathful :: Scathful (a.) Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.
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..
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