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Perniciously
(gcide) | 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.
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Let this pernicious hour
Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak.
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Pernicious to his health. --Prescott.
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Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious;
baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
[1913 Webster] -- Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., --
Per*ni"cious*ness, n.
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perniciously
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adv 1: in a harmfully insidious manner; "these drugs act
insidiously" [syn: insidiously, perniciously]
2: in a noxiously baneful way; "this banefully poisoned climate"
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