How to Use pernicious in a Sentence

pernicious

adjective

• More pernicious still has been the acceptance of the author's controversial ideas by the general public.
• She thinks television has a pernicious influence on our children.
• Some of those forms are even more pernicious than the old forms.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2018
• And on the raging ocean main, Amid the stormy waves of death, And in the desert hurricane, And in the Plague’s pernicious breath.
  — The Economist, 4 June 2020
• Of all the circumstances in this case, that may be the most pernicious.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2020
• This leads to the most pernicious effect of the argument.
  — John Ryder, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
• Such a frame of mind is pernicious for the future of both our nations.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
• The third, and perhaps most pernicious, myth is that nothing can be done about it.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• It has been called the new Jim Crow because of these pernicious effects.
  — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2020
• But there is a long and pernicious history in the South that cannot be ignored.
  — ELLE, 11 Oct. 2022
• For most of us, our most pernicious villain is our self.
  — Marisha Pessl, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• Of all the health myths in the world, the idea that there is a silver bullet for weight loss may be among the most persistent and pernicious.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 2 Jan. 2019
• To his credit, Rhodes does not pretend to have all of the answers about how to stop such pernicious trends.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• Many of the series' most pernicious bugbears have been dumped.
  — Daniel Starkey, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
• But in some ways, the effects of these glowing bedmates seem to be a bit more pernicious.
  — Brian Fagan, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2019
• It was designed to be more resistant to one of the most pernicious diseases in the fruit world — apple scab.
  — Connie Nelson, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• But the most pernicious forms of the disease are the kind exhibited by Ditka.
  — Author: Mary Schmich, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Oct. 2017
• And that’s the pernicious problem of having so many teams tanking in baseball.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• How close to the pernicious doctrine of the blue-eyed Aryan ideal of humanity?
  — Henry Louis Gates Jr., The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019
• For the first time, the party was no longer considered the most pernicious for French democracy.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• The closest wildfire was 85 miles away, but smoke can be pernicious in its effects on wine grapes.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2021
• The former threat seems easier to spot, but the two are equally pernicious.
  — John Bolton, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
• But that very fact is one of the reasons why conflicts of interest are so pernicious.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 19 May 2017
• And perhaps all that had brought him back to his old haunts in Shinagawa, back to his former, pernicious habits.
  — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The study highlights just how pernicious this metal can be, even at low levels.
  — chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
• More pernicious is the fact that so few people realize that this could be a problem.
  — Michael Waters, Wired, 31 Mar. 2020
• And the threat of wildfire — which, by this time last year, had ruined grapes up and down the state with pernicious smoke — remains on everyone's mind.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2021
• The Clarks offered the results as proof of the pernicious effects of segregation.
  — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 8 Feb. 2022
• The most pernicious of them is stigma, particularly in the South and among health care providers.
  — Carl Schmid, STAT, 23 June 2022
• Some of the most pernicious monthly charges are from apps and free-trials that people forget to cancel or pause.
  — Amber Burton, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2024