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pernicious
Synonyms and Antonyms of pernicious
causing or capable of causing harm
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, prejudicial, wicked
contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous
insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound
Synonym Discussion of pernicious
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- the claim that pornography has a pernicious effect on society
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- the baneful notion that discipline destroys creativity
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- noxious chemical fumes
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- a diet found to have deleterious effects
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- the detrimental effects of excessive drinking
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