Sentence examples for pernicious intent from inspiring English sources
If Cox's shot did not, in fact, strike his arms after he streaked absurdly out of his box, it was only because of the goalkeeper's incompetence: he certainly meant to handle it and that crazed and pernicious intent may well have appalled Cox so much that he was prevented from bettering the finest lob of his career so far.
Whether their motives indicate innocent or pernicious intents, such tampering undermines the validity of a trial.
Two dozen men with guns entered an Oklahoma City diner promptly at midnight on Wednesday, intent on inaugurating a pernicious new law allowing the state's 142,000 citizens with concealed-handgun licenses to begin wearing their loaded weapons publicly.
But while fictional zombies are harmless, zombie ideas can be truly pernicious even when that is not the intent of the propagator.
Domestic abuse is pernicious.
That inertia is pernicious.
The symptoms are pernicious.
Reprehensible! Foul! Pernicious! Unsubstantiated!
This is pernicious nonsense.
