Word:
pernicious (per-nish-uhs)
Original Sentence:
“However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.”
Zelezney, John D. Cases in Communications Law.
Definitions:
–adjective
1. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
2. deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease.
3. Obsolete. evil; wicked.
New Sentence:
The pernicious banter of an adolescent bully often has a life-long impact on children.
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