Use pernicious in a sentence
Sentences starting with pernicious
- Pernicious doctrines, sir, are in the air, and like diseases are early caught by the young. [9]
Sentences ending with pernicious
- In the free action of individual thought and expression grew eccentricities of belief and of practice, and a crop of so-called "isms," more or less temporary, unprofitable, and pernicious. [4]
More example sentences with the word pernicious in them
- The pernicious doctrines which we have announced as prevailing in American society have been again illustrated. [5]
- If all medicine were very costly, and the expense of it always came out of the physician's fee, it would really be a less objectionable arrangement than this other most pernicious one. [3]
- In short, it was a pernicious revival of an obsolete state of affairs, competition, and if persisted in, involved nothing less than a fight to a finish with the army, the lobby of the Northeastern. [9]
- It had been true once, but was now a pernicious and abominable lie. [6]
- I've always said to myself, "Everybody reads it and that's something--it surely isn't pernicious, or the most acceptable people would get pretty tired of it. [5]
- His interference, in that particular instance, might have been an excellent thing, but to permit it would have been to establish a most pernicious precedent. [5]
- One of the results--it will be remembered of religion as I was taught it was a pernicious shyness, and even though I had found a mentor and confessor, I might have hesitated to unburden myself. [9]
- We desire the restoration of the earlier condition of things; the cancellation of all this incapable Government's pernicious trades with Hungary; and then--release from the sorry burden of the Badeni ministry! [5]
- He was the primitive and pernicious hunter. [11]
- They constitute a portion of population that is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it, is never matter of reasonable regret with any one. [7]
- Of course she pleaded with me just as earnestly as ever, after that blessed day, to quit my pernicious habit, but to no purpose whatever; the moment she opened the subject I at once became calmly, peacefully, contentedly indifferent--absolutely, adamantinely indifferent. [5]
- That is a pernicious book to place in the hands of the confiding and uniformed, we think we have also shown. [5]
- As far as our South is concerned, the good work done by Cervantes is pretty nearly a dead letter, so effectually has Scott's pernicious work undermined it. [5]
- The pernicious branch of the just tree shall be cloven and cast into the brush-heap. [11]
- No more pernicious notion ever obtained lodgment in society than the common one that to "rise in the world" is necessarily to change the "condition. [4]
- Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. [6]
- I suppose this is one of the pernicious results of being on the Stock Exchange. [9]
- By this inquisitive gaping she fills her head with a thousand useless and distracting fancies; I am not always at home, and so it will be best to have the pernicious window walled up. [10]
- Flint?--who was responsible for this pernicious change for the worse, who conceived the notion of leasing for the Truro the Central and the Northwestern,--thus making one railroad out of the three. [9]
- It is the deliberate opinion of this jury, that the "chance" theory concerning seven-up is a pernicious doctrine, and calculated to inflict untold suffering and pecuniary loss upon any community that takes stock in it. [5]
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