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Word of the Day for Monday, May 18, 2009 pernicious \pur-NISH-us\, adjective: Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful. Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. -- Wendy Lesser, "Who's Afraid of Arnold Bennett?", New York Times, September 28, 1997 But he said they were not thinkers but snobs, and their influence was pernicious. -- Saul Bellow, Ravelstein Racism should be condemned because its effects are pernicious. -- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages Pernicious comes from Latin perniciosus, "destructive, ruinous," from pernicies, "destruction, disaster, ruin," from per-, "through, thoroughly" + nex, nec-, "violent death." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for pernicious Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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