Pernicious
adjective
Causing harm in a way that you do not see until it is too late.
Alcohol can have a pernicious effect on the liver.
Often appears as...
- pernicious effect
- pernicious influence
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Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Leading to serious harm or trouble.
There is a pernicious rumor going around about her past.
Often appears as...
- pernicious rumor
- pernicious falsehood
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Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Extremely harmful and destructive.
Unchecked, these rodents can be pernicious to local wildlife populations.
Often appears as...
- pernicious threat
- pernicious behavior
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Formal, Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Causing harm in a way that you do not see until it is too late.
Alcohol can have a pernicious effect on the liver.
Often appears as...
- pernicious effect
- pernicious influence
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Leading to serious harm or trouble.
There is a pernicious rumor going around about her past.
Often appears as...
- pernicious rumor
- pernicious falsehood
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Extremely harmful and destructive.
Unchecked, these rodents can be pernicious to local wildlife populations.
Often appears as...
- pernicious threat
- pernicious behavior
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Insidious Nature
Something pernicious can seem secure at first, but its harm slowly becomes apparent over time.
Excessive gaming is pernicious, initially fun but ultimately impacting health and social life.
Pro Tip 2/2Late Detection
When something is pernicious, the damage is often recognized when it's already too late to avoid.
Failure to exercise can have pernicious effects on one's fitness, noticed only when health issues arise.
Pro Tip 1/2Insidious Nature
Something pernicious can seem secure at first, but its harm slowly becomes apparent over time.
Excessive gaming is pernicious, initially fun but ultimately impacting health and social life.
Pro Tip 2/2Late Detection
When something is pernicious, the damage is often recognized when it's already too late to avoid.
Failure to exercise can have pernicious effects on one's fitness, noticed only when health issues arise.
Pro Tip 1/2Insidious Nature
Something pernicious can seem secure at first, but its harm slowly becomes apparent over time.
Excessive gaming is pernicious, initially fun but ultimately impacting health and social life.
Pro Tip 2/2Late Detection
When something is pernicious, the damage is often recognized when it's already too late to avoid.
Failure to exercise can have pernicious effects on one's fitness, noticed only when health issues arise.
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Does racism affect how...
get when you go to college where you do kind of get a mix of people that you might not interact with otherwise but the point is this is all good news because when something is predictable it's what I call design a book we can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem even a problem is pernicious and as intractable as racism
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Nate Silver: How does...
where you do get a mix of people that you might not interact with otherwise. But the point is, this is all good news, because when something is predictable, it is what I call designable. You can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem, even if the problem is pernicious and as intractable as racism.
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Do Shark Stories Help...
them out but give them some respect i think one of the things we need to get away from are these binaries that we create about sharks they're beautiful or they're scary you know they're ferocious or they're cuddly i think these these narratives where we try and defang them are just as pernicious as these
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Uber's plan to get more...
In other cities, they required two jitney drivers for one jitney. But there was a really interesting regulation which was they had to put a backseat light -- install it in every Jitney -- to stop a new pernicious innovation which they called spooning.
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The mystery of chronic...
now but that will be disease modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells or those pernicious proteins that the glial cells elaborate that spill over and cause the central nervous system wind-up
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Storytelling can be...
also a storyteller she weaves powerful narratives except instead of doing it to show the truth to actually help make the world a better place she does it to deceive people I mean think about how pernicious she what she's doing is instead of
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Does money make you...
but that resound across all strata of society. Even people at the top experience these outcomes. So what do we do? This cascade of self-perpetuating, pernicious, negative effects could seem like something that's spun out of control,
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The dirty secret of...
And by pretending that the giant imbalance in power between capital and labor doesn't exist, neoliberal economic theory became essentially a protection racket for the rich. The third assumption, and by far the most pernicious,
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It's time to reclaim...
it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision
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Love, no matter what PIPE...
a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion, it deserves no treatment as minority martyrdom, and it deserves not to be deemed anything but a pernicious sickness."
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Does racism affect how...
get when you go to college where you do kind of get a mix of people that you might not interact with otherwise but the point is this is all good news because when something is predictable it's what I call design a book we can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem even a problem is pernicious and as intractable as racism
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Nate Silver: How does...
where you do get a mix of people that you might not interact with otherwise. But the point is, this is all good news, because when something is predictable, it is what I call designable. You can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem, even if the problem is pernicious and as intractable as racism.
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Do Shark Stories Help...
them out but give them some respect i think one of the things we need to get away from are these binaries that we create about sharks they're beautiful or they're scary you know they're ferocious or they're cuddly i think these these narratives where we try and defang them are just as pernicious as these
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Uber's plan to get more...
In other cities, they required two jitney drivers for one jitney. But there was a really interesting regulation which was they had to put a backseat light -- install it in every Jitney -- to stop a new pernicious innovation which they called spooning.
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The mystery of chronic...
now but that will be disease modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells or those pernicious proteins that the glial cells elaborate that spill over and cause the central nervous system wind-up
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Storytelling can be...
also a storyteller she weaves powerful narratives except instead of doing it to show the truth to actually help make the world a better place she does it to deceive people I mean think about how pernicious she what she's doing is instead of
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Does money make you...
but that resound across all strata of society. Even people at the top experience these outcomes. So what do we do? This cascade of self-perpetuating, pernicious, negative effects could seem like something that's spun out of control,
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The dirty secret of...
And by pretending that the giant imbalance in power between capital and labor doesn't exist, neoliberal economic theory became essentially a protection racket for the rich. The third assumption, and by far the most pernicious,
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It's time to reclaim...
it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision
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Love, no matter what PIPE...
a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion, it deserves no treatment as minority martyrdom, and it deserves not to be deemed anything but a pernicious sickness."
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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James Jones
American Author
You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.
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Leo Tolstoy
Russian Novelist
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Andrew Neil
British Journalist
When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.
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Joseph Heller
American Novelist
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
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Roger Scruton
English Philosopher
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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Edward Zwick
American Director
Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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James Jones
American Author
You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.
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Leo Tolstoy
Russian Novelist
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Andrew Neil
British Journalist
When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.
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Joseph Heller
American Novelist
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
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Roger Scruton
English Philosopher
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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Edward Zwick
American Director
Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.
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