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Perniciously

Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.

Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar.
--Shak.

Pernicious to his health.
--Prescott.

Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. [1913 Webster] -- Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni"cious*ness, n.

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perniciously

adv. In a pernicious manner.

WordNet
perniciously

  1. adv. in a harmfully insidious manner; "these drugs act insidiously" [syn: insidiously]

  2. in a noxiously baneful way; "this banefully poisoned climate" [syn: banefully]

Usage examples of "perniciously".

Thou art here indicted by the name of Atheism, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou hast perniciously and doltishly taught and maintained that there is no God, and so no heed to be taken to religion.