Pernicious.
Adjective.
- highly injurious or destructive.
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archaic: wicked.
– perniciously, adverb.
– perniciousness, noun.
Pernicious implies irreparable harm done through evil or insidious corrupting or undermining.
[Origin: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from per – + nec -, nex violent death.] 15th Century.
“I found this fellow at the bottom of the chest under a lot of other stuff. Fortunately our pernicious vicar hadn’t quite got to it before his collapse.” The Ghosts of Sleath, James Herbert.
A perfect word to describe the Trump regime.
Yes, I thought so.
I’ve always seen ‘pernicious’ as something small, mean and biting that causes damage disproportionate to its size. Like ‘vicious’, but smaller in scale though more persistent in intent. I see its actual definition is a lot more serious.
I love pernicious.
Aye, me too. It’s a good word. Ought to be in circulation more.