Sentence examples for slightly pernicious from inspiring English sources

Selfies themselves are as old as photography, but until today we thought the selfie stick was a more recent - and, for some, slightly pernicious - phenomenon.

"I fear they've heard of us down there," Mr. McCall Smith said, slightly concerned that they might also have heard a pernicious rumor that, thanks to persistent practice, the orchestra was less bad than it used to be.

Lots of people have mentioned drugs, and the way they function as the most complex and pernicious example of correction in the novel: little pills that can turn you into a slightly different person.

"Pernicious quicksand!

Domestic abuse is pernicious.

That inertia is pernicious.

"It became pernicious".

It's a pernicious relationship".

The symptoms are pernicious.

Reprehensible! Foul! Pernicious! Unsubstantiated!

This is pernicious nonsense.