Definition of pernicious

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Pernicious (a.) Quick; swift (to burn).

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Damnable :: Damnable (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Misbegotten :: Misbegotten (p. a.) Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.
Malignity :: Malignity (n.) Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud..
Noxious :: Noxious (a.) Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples..
Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
Pestilential :: Pestilential (a.) Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious..
Wicked :: Wicked (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
Pernicious :: Pernicious (a.) Quick; swift (to burn).
Pestilent :: Pestilent (a.) Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
Destructive :: Destructive (a.) Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth..
Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..
Malign :: Malign (a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets..
Pernicious :: Pernicious (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers..
Ruinous :: Ruinous (a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project..
Blasting :: Blasting (n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause..
Scathful :: Scathful (a.) Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.
Baneful :: Baneful (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Deleterious :: Deleterious (a.) Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example..
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