Usually means: Harmful and subtly destructive influence.
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  1. pernicious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pernicious: Merriam-Webster
  3. pernicious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pernicious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pernicious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pernicious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pernicious, pernicious: Wordnik
  8. pernicious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pernicious: Wiktionary
  10. pernicious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pernicious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pernicious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pernicious: Dictionary.com
  14. pernicious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pernicious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pernicious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pernicious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pernicious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pernicious: Rhymezone
  20. Pernicious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pernicious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pernicious: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. pernicious: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pernicious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. pernicious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. pernicious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pernicious: Legal dictionary

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  1. pernicious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pernicious: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. pernicious: Medical dictionary
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  1. pernicious: A Word A Day

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  1. pernicious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See perniciously as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing much harm in a subtle way.
adjective:  Causing death or injury; deadly.
adjective:  (of a person) Insidiously villainous: intending to cause harm, especially in a subtle way.
adjective:  (obsolete) swift; celeritous.

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