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Meanings of so pernicious in English

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Usage of so pernicious in English
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He did this to prevent them from following so pernicious an example.
Ernest Bracebridge: School Days
2
Nor is the mischief, which it generates, either so frightful or so pernicious.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
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For McLeod, this case highlights why sexual harassment is " so pernicious".
The Guardian
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One reason, doubtless, why it is so pernicious, is the constant habit of drinking before breakfast.
Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, an...
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But, although exercising so pernicious an influence, it is not itself a cause, but an effect.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 / Studies In American Political His...
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That is why it is so pernicious.
The Guardian
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The raw rimes were not so pernicious as in the hollows, and the frosts were scarcely so severe.
Wessex Tales
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The inveterate and 'pernicious habit of abstraction,'-thatso pernicious habit of the men of learning must be overawed first.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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Shall we supinely submit, or do all in our power to oppose, check and suppress so pernicious a theory?
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
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This is what is so pernicious and incendiary about these ideas: they conceal a tendentious opinion about compensatory social programmes.
The Guardian
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Court would release your petitioner from the injurious effects of the said committee's act, and explode so pernicious a precedent.
Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II / With an Account of Salem Vi...
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I mentioned how commonly it was used in Turkey, and that therefore it could not be so pernicious as he apprehended.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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That advice so pernicious will not be followed, I am well assured; yet I cannot but listen to it with uneasiness.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
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This, it seems, is the first effect of Mademoiselle de Gramont's renewed influence, which we have before now found so pernicious.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
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I found fault with the use of wine, and pitied mankind for having contracted an untoward relish for so pernicious a beverage.
International Short Stories: French
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He knew how good he was, and if such a fallacy had not been so pernicious he could have laughed at it.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
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