pernicious

[Per*ni·cious]

Pernicious means harmful and subtle, such as a poison gas that causes cancer in those exposed to it over the course of years.

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Quick; swift (to burn).

Adjective S.
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

Adjective S.
exceedingly harmful


a.
Quick; swift (to burn).

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


Pernicious

Per*ni"cious , a. [L. pernix, -icis.] Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.

Pernicious

Per*ni"cious, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar.
Pernicious to his health.
Syn. -- Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni"cious*ness, n.

Quick; swift (to burn).

Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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