Pernicious
1.
causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
2.
deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease.
3.
Obsolete. evil; wicked.
A friend said something along these lines to me the other day: "I don't mean to be pernicious, but...."
Wow! I like that word! Two points for vocabulary!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
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Oh, yeah! Big vocabulary points for that one.
But which meaning did she mean?
A dramatic use of 'hurtful.'
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