pernicious (adj.)
- baleful
- baneful
- brutal
- corrosive
- corrupting
- corruptive
- counterproductive
- damaging
- deadly
- deathly
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- devastating
- disadvantageous
- distressing
- fatal
- feral
- harmful
- hurtful
- injurious
- internecine
- killing
- lethal
- malefic
- maleficent
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- miasmic
- mischievous
- mortal
- noisome
- noxious
- ominous
- pestiferous
- pestilent
- pestilential
- poisonous
- prejudicial
- ruinous
- savage
- sinister
- swart
- toxic
- venomous
- vicious
- virulent
Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys:
Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.