Modifies a noun

• anemia: Some people have a medical problem called pernicious anemia in which vitamin B 12 is not absorbed from the intestine.

• anemia: She died 26 March 1932 of pernicious anemia, aged 49 years.

• weed: Ground elder, a pernicious weed has spread all through the bed.

• nonsense: He had heard about Jesus and thought of it all as pernicious nonsense.

• doctrine: This was, and is, a pernicious doctrine.

• myth: Over the past few months and years, some pernicious myths have started to become a little too popular.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: There's one particularly pernicious piece of red tape that Kent County Council supports - by maintaining its own version of Section 28.

• especially: The negative impact upon black young people may be especially pernicious.

• so: Nothing was ever so pernicious to our country, nothing was ever so unlucky.

• very: In the same way science fiction has developed rules, and I find all rules very pernicious to writing.

• equally: The UN and the War on Terrorism The UN's role in the war against terrorism is equally pernicious.

• truly: If you don't understand the truly pernicious nature of the National ID card you probably deserve to be living in a police state.