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What does pernicious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Causing much harm in a subtle way.
  2. Causing death or injury; deadly.
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One could hardly ask for a better example of the legal realism he would so soon consider to be a pernicious and dangerous idea.
Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place.
The classic disorder of malabsorption is pernicious anemia, an autoimmune disease that affects the gastric parietal cells.
History teaches us that unless these pernicious tendencies are scotched, they grow to become unmanageable monsters later on.
But given the pernicious infighting in the sport, it may be some time before punters can fully benefit from a sensible review of outdated laws.
How can critical commentary 'mediate the radicalism' without itself performing a pernicious form of naturalisation in making it more accessible?

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