See pernicious in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 70, column 1:",
"text": "Ang. Belieue me on mine Honor,\nMy words expreſſe my purpoſe.\nIſa. Ha? Little honor, to be much beleeu'd,\nAnd moſt pernitious purpoſe: Seeming, ſeeming.\nI will proclaime thee Angelo, looke for't.",
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"text": "[…]her health also having suffered by the change, she immediately, when told of Douglas's projected departure from India, felt the strongest desire to accompany him; and to which Colonel Melbourne the more readily consented, having with reluctance yielded to her request of quitting England, willing as he had been to sacrifice the enjoyment of her society rather than that she should submit to the disadvantages attendant upon a residence in a clime usually found so pernicious to the female constitution.",
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"ref": "2017 March 22, Jacob Kastrenakes, “Medium launches memberships for $5 per month”, in The Verge:",
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"text": "A man has always been a woman’s best excuse to avoid her destiny; that a man is her destiny is one of patriarchy’s most pernicious tenets. What a scam.",
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