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A third type of lie is the mendacium perniciosum , or "pernicious lie," a lie that is intended to do harm.
The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics.
I might accuse them of being pernicious tools of Satan (well, OK, Disney), but I wouldn't be so disrespectful as to dismiss them lightly or discredit (all of) their motives.
Video slot machines crammed into convenience stores--perhaps the most pernicious form of legal gambling there is--are called "retail gaming."
These conditions include thyroid deficiency, mercury poisoning, infectious diseases such as neurosyphilis and meningitis, nutritional disorders, including pellagra and pernicious anemia that involve deficiency of elements of the vitamin B complex, and chronic alcoholism.