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  • r  in a harmfully insidious manner
  • r  in a noxiously baneful way

  • Last week, in a Paris court, the referee rejected both petitions on the ground that the film does not offend either ancestor "perniciously," contains "charming naveties as .
  • Born in Vienna, he won a prize at the Royal Academy, Berlin, began his career there in the days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio.
  • The literature of the illicit narcotics trade bristles with tales of perniciously ingenious capers and official corruption.
Quotes

  • Richard Blumenthal in New York Times
    Most sunscreens are deceptively and misleadingly labeled, most perniciously to give consumers a false sense of security,Mr. Blumenthal said last week. "In my view, the FDA's failure to act is unconscionable and unjustifiable in any public...
  • David Horovitz in Toronto Star
    • "The 'humanitarian aid' flotilla was clearly a perniciously well-conceived initiative, for which Israel prepared inadequately," writes David Horovitz of the Jerusalem Post. "Hampered by a prime minister who is overseas (note: Netanyahu...
  • Richard Dawkins in Examiner.com
    Dawkins calls this type of explanation, "at best unhelpful and at worst perniciously misleading."

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