PERNICIOUS in a Sentence
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11 example sentences for PERNICIOUS, such as:
1. And, in truth, no course can be more pernicious.
2. Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
3. Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
4. My city life, he said, had had a very pernicious effect upon me.
5. They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
2. Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
3. Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
4. My city life, he said, had had a very pernicious effect upon me.
5. They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
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Meanings and Examples of PERNICIOUS
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pernicious
a. very destructive; tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly
Classic Sentence:
1 And there can be no more effectual means for checking calumny than by affording ample facilities for impeachment, which is as useful in a commonwealth as the other is pernicious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
2 And, in truth, no course can be more pernicious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLV.
3 To these false opinions, founded on the pernicious example first set by the present corrupt age, we owe it, that no man thinks of departing from the methods which are in use.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
4 Sviazhsky began talking of Levin, describing his strange view that machinery is simply pernicious in its effects on Russian agriculture.
5 My city life, he said, had had a very pernicious effect upon me.
6 He's worse than a Jacobin freethinker, and he instils such pernicious ideas into the minds of the young that I can hardly describe it.
Example Sentence:
1 They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
2 Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
3 The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
4 Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
5 Crack cocaine has had a pernicious effect on urban society: it has destroyed families, turned children into drug dealers, and increased the spread of violent crimes.