At the same time I could not help feeling to how many false and pernicious principles, both in taste and in politics, they were likely, by their excellence, to give a non-natural circulation.
Another important feature to be noted is that the lights seen before midnight on St. George's Day, denote treasures kept by benevolent spirits, while those which appear at a later hour are unquestionably of a pernicious nature.
Again did the honest Missourians set their faces against this pernicious example, and when the county to which the Mormons had removed became more thickly settled, they rose to a man against the modern Gomorrah.
I seemed to float rather than walk; I hardly felt the ground under my feet; I thought pernicious fever must be a great boon to make one feel so strong.
Pernicious fever is a case for a simple mathematician instead of a doctor.
Disease was a divine infliction supposed to be due to the direct presence in the body, or to the hidden influence, of some pernicious spirit.
I do not think I have mentioned what I should like to impress very much on my readers, that on no account, on no pretext whatever, should that most pernicious gas be allowed in any nursery, either day or night.
The opponents of Sherman did not believe that these alleged offenses were either the most important or the most dangerous of his pernicious activities.
I will go home, and there repent all good Done to thy name or thy profession; I will go home, and there new-frame myself More thirstily pernicious to thy state Than war or unabated mutiny.
In 1685, however, the French government again renewed the attempt to alter this pernicious system, but Charlevoix says that "every one agreed that their neighbor was in danger, but no one could be got to fear for himself in particular.
Moreover, humanitarian military interventions have proven to be the most pernicious kind of humanitarian disasters.
The Economist summed this semipternal mass hysteria neatly thus: "The core idea that economic structure determines everything has been especially pernicious .
Consider how pernicious flattery of this nature is.
The vast debt of Great Britain is declared to be among the pernicious fruits of her Naval Establishment.
If it was to have any influence, it must be a pernicious one, because founded on ex parte testimony.
The Afrikaner Bond professed its objects to be peace and harmony, but it really contained the pernicious seeds of division and strife, to set up enmity between English Afrikaners and Boer Afrikaners.
It is only such an attitude that will preserve the nation in its simple faith and habits of morality, and provide safety against the dangers of contamination and pernicious examples, with all their fateful consequences to body and soul.
But its pernicious effects are more obvious here; perhaps owing to the manner of preparing it, as we often saw instances of its intoxicating, or rather stupifying powers.
The woman voter would be pernicious to the State not only because she could not back her vote by physical force, but also by reason of her intellectual defects.
This is, that she would be pernicious to the State also by virtue of her defective moral equipment.
Nay when the injustice is so distant from us, as no way to affect our interest, it still displeases us; because we consider it as prejudicial to human society, and pernicious to every one that approaches the person guilty of it.
All the other passions, besides this of interest, are either easily restrained, or are not of such pernicious consequence, when indulged.
Taking any single act, my justice may be pernicious in every respect; and it is only upon the supposition.
A diminution in their number is known as leucopenia, and is found in starvation, in some infective diseases, as for example in typhoid fever, in malaria and Malta fever, and in pernicious anaemia.
Pernicious anaemia is a rarer disease than chlorosis, occurs usually later in life, and is distributed nearly equally between the two sexes.
After death the amount of blood sometimes seems to be increased, and sometimes, as in "pernicious anaemia," it is certainly diminished.
Such persons, too, will of course freely express their opinion, yet their denunciations will probably produce an exactly opposite effect to the one they intend, their own conduct proving the pernicious influence of their theory.
The system is, however, a pernicious one, and travellers should discourage it as much as possible, if only for the sake of those who cannot afford to sustain it.
The ancient paradox of Plutarch, that atheism is less pernicious than superstition, acquires a tenfold vigor, when it is adorned with the colours of his wit, and pointed with the acuteness of his logic.
Such a pernicious violation of liberty and law can be excused only by the most imperious necessity; nor could it be defended on this occasion by the plea of impending danger or useful example.
And pernicious as was the object of the despatch, was not the spirit of it infinitely worse?
It was a vicious recommendation, and a flagrant and pernicious violation of the constitution.
The proposition is one of the most pernicious nature, and such as must lead to the most dangerous consequences if adopted.
The whole document may be profitably studied by all who deprecate unwise and pernicious legislation; but a selection of a few of the cases of injurious operation which it presents will be sufficient to give an idea of the whole.
Being the first time these unconstitutional and pernicious schemes were formally presented to Congress, he felt it to be his duty to disclose his opposition to them at once.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pernicious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
