Definition of pernicious

"pernicious" in the adjective sense

1. baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent

exceedingly harmful

2. insidious, pernicious, subtle

working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

"glaucoma is an insidious disease"

"a subtle poison"

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Quotations for pernicious

O cursed hunger of pernicious gold! [ Dryden ]

Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious. [ Proverb ]

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. [ Addison ]

This avarice sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root than summer-seeding lust. [ William Shakespeare ]

Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. [ Steele ]

Dictionaries have come to be, in too many cases, the pernicious record of unreasonable, unwarranted, and fleeting usage. [ R. G. White ]

Books produce the same effect on the mind that diet does on the body; they may either impart no salutary nutriment, or convey that which is pernicious. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

pernicious in Scrabble®

The word pernicious is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters pernicious:

PERNICIOUS
(135)
PERNICIOUS
(135)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (26 words)

coiners, copiers, crispen, cronies, cuisine, eosinic, incisor, inspire, ioniser, irenics, ironies, noisier, pincers, porcine, pouncer, pounces, princes, psionic, purines, recoins, recoups, sericin, soupier, spicier, spinier, uprisen

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word pernicious

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In pernicious

PERNICIOUS
(135)
PERNICIOUS
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pernicious in Words With Friends™

The word pernicious is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters pernicious:

PERNICIOUS
(270)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (26 words)

coiners, copiers, crispen, cronies, cuisine, eosinic, incisor, inspire, ioniser, irenics, ironies, noisier, pincers, porcine, pouncer, pounces, princes, psionic, purines, recoins, recoups, sericin, soupier, spicier, spinier, uprisen

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word pernicious

PERNICIOUS
(270)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In pernicious

PERNICIOUS
(270)
PERNICIOUS
(198)
PERNICIOUS
(132)
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Words within the letters of pernicious

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8 letter words in pernicious (5 words)

9 letter words in pernicious (1 word)

10 letter words in pernicious (1 word)

Words containing the sequence pernicious

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