perniciously

Variant of pernicious

adjective

  1. causing great injury, destruction, or ruin; fatal; deadly
  2. Rare wicked; evil

Origin: Fr pernicieux < L perniciosus < pernicies, destruction < pernecare, to kill < per, thoroughly + necare, to kill: see necro-

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