Sentence examples for downright pernicious from inspiring English sources

The prohibition of split infinitives (as in "Are you sure you want to permanently delete all the items and subfolders in the 'Deleted Items' folder?") and the even more sweeping prohibition of "split verbs" (as in "I will always love you" and "I would never have guessed") is downright pernicious.

Others now seem misguided, or even downright pernicious.

Our political system currently rests on a series of fundamentally false and downright pernicious premises.

Along with Stoya and many others, I decry this ill-informed view of safety and risk as not only pernicious, but downright stupid.

Outside the wall, in the realm of human behavior, applications of evolutionary thinking are typically treated as irrelevant at best; usually as pernicious, wrong, and downright dangerous.

"Pernicious quicksand!

But pernicious?

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Downright deceit.

Farming seemed downright anachronistic.