pernicious
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“When something is consistently wrong, the good thing is you know not to trust it. But when things are mostly right but sometimes wrong, that’s the most pernicious one.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
But there are also much more pernicious problems.
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2026
High borrowing costs, he said, have had a pernicious impact on lower-income consumers without producing clear gains in inflation.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
The five-year bout of high inflation is part of the pernicious legacy of the coronavirus pandemic that began in 2020.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026
Radiation, in fact, is so pernicious and long lasting that even now her papers from the 1890s–even her cookbooks–are too dangerous to handle.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing pernicious
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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