perniciousness

• “perniciousness" with which they were reproached was nothing else but their opposition to the established polytheism; and this view of the matter was just such an one as might be expected to occur to a mind which held the sect in too much contempt to concern itself about the grounds and reasons of their conduct.”

  Evidence of Christianity

• “And he objected to long-term public debts in part because they bound more than one generation, a doctrine which Hamilton rightly attacked for its “perniciousness and absurdity.””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Change I Can Believe In

• “Scenes of extreme mourning for Kim in the streets of Pyongyang again brought home the perniciousness of lies in such regimes, as I was reminded of Mao Zedong's death 35 years earlier.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Reading Havel in Beijing

• “But I'd imagine none of this fits with the narrative of Blairite disloyalty and perniciousness Milne had decided upon before he began writing his column.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Progress does not back privatisation

• “His book develops into a sustained polemic about the perniciousness of the British class system.”

  The Guardian: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones – review

• “Eventually, Eco gets to the literary heritage of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and how that fiction's perniciousness was reinforced by fitting a pre-existing narrative pattern that had wormed its way into popular consciousness.”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “See now the perniciousness of the claim that the anti-Ahmadi law represent "democratic discourse"?”

  The Huffington Post: Josh Mull: "Democratic Discourse": Reflections in the Pakistani Mirror

• “Adding to the perniciousness of tempting kids with toys is the use of promotions that have kids coming back to "collect them all.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael F. Jacobson: McDonald's Lawsuit: Using Toys to Sell Happy Meals

• “Certainly, Tebow's broad shoulders don't bear the whole burden of advertising's latent perniciousness.”

  Newsweek: Pitch Man

• “But its troubles have also brought out the dime-store Jeremiahs declaiming on the perniciousness of "derivatives.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Is Financial Innovation the Enemy?

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