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# pernicious

«pernicious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very harmful; slowly causing damage, ruin or trouble** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Very harmful; slowly causing damage, ruin or trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pernicious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a bad force such as envy that spoils people's lives, which a power can ward off

### examples

- The Romans worshipped Nemesis to ward off the pernicious consequences of envy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pernicious/#x1)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pernicious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pernicious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.