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Significats de pernicious en anglès

Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way.

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Exceedingly harmful.

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Ús de pernicious en anglès
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The effects are particularly pernicious for children whose lungs are still developing.
The Guardian
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The dead lie in heaps and layers in the invisible, pernicious poison.
Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
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Perhaps the most pernicious danger is that of infant and toddler food.
The Guardian
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You may not fear carbs today, but the anti-carb camps are pernicious.
Climbing Magazine
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The passive defense is always pernicious; the active may accomplish great successes.
The Art of War
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This is a pernicious practice; it spoils continuity of thought and application.
How to Use Your Mind / A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for...
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Now particularism was especially pronounced and especially pernicious in the middle southwest.
The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
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There is something very singular in the history of this pernicious drug.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume ...
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An honour legitimately earned by your pernicious collaboration in the Vassilyevski bust.
Alias the Lone Wolf
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Nor is every misinterpretation of the past necessarily pernicious in its effects.
The Guardian
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Altogether, the influence of Romanism has been most pernicious in these islands.
The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific
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Whether the opium trade be a pernicious trade is not the question.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
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The pernicious and grasping nature everywhere cultivated, soon fastened upon the features.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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He called this pernicious hair-splitting; or, with the Psalmist: Spinning spiders' webs.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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You were complaining-complainingof the stairs, and it is a pernicious habit.
Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V
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Lingamism is not merely idolatry, but idolatry in its most pernicious form.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
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