Sentence examples for pernicious thing from inspiring English sources

"I really found the most pernicious thing in prison was feeling sorry for yourself".

The most pernicious thing about institutionalised homophobia and legal repression is that they make this realisation so hard.

He added: "The way they have gone about this seems absolutely ghastly; the really pernicious thing is the secrecy with which it has all been done".

In his otherwise excellent article, David Leonhardt misses the single most pernicious thing done tax-wise during the Reagan era to favor the rich.

They're multiplying like mad — like rabbits with hooves, tusks and an epic sense of entitlement — especially here in Texas, where an estimated 2.6 million of them routinely desecrate farmland by rooting up crops, decimate reptile populations by snacking on them, devour feed meant for livestock and probably do some other pernicious thing beginning in "de-" that won't come to me right now.

A cancer diagnosis is a pernicious thing.

Of all of life's evils, making art and selling it is hardly one of the more pernicious things, even the way it was in the '80s.

To the list of pernicious things that have not happened at this World Cup, add one more: a spike in the sex trade.

"One of the really pernicious things about sequestration is it is a slow stranglehold as opposed to an immediate stopping of essential government services.

But the ability to focus a dating search on one specific category can also be horrifying if the category of interest is built around pernicious things like hate or violence or crackpot ideas.

In New York, it caught on in the mid-1860s, asd as early as 1868 The Real Estate Record and Guide complained that mansard fad was pernicious: "the thing becomes so overdone that sheer nausea begets a change".