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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 perniciously
 (ad.)惡性地;致命地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Per·ni·cious, a.  Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
 Let this pernicious hour
 Stand aye accursed in the calendar.   --Shak.
    Pernicious to his health.   --Prescott.
 Syn: -- Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
 -- Per*ni*cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni*cious*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 perniciously
      adv 1: in a harmfully insidious manner; "these drugs act
             insidiously" [syn: insidiously]
      2: in a noxiously baneful way; "this banefully poisoned
         climate" [syn: banefully]