[もんだいしょうほう, mondaishouhou] (n) unscrupulous (crooked, fraudulent) business practices; pernicious sales methods [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies
destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per +
necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. {Nuisance},
{Necromancy}.]
Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very
mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
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Let this pernicious hour
Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak.
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Pernicious to his health. --Prescott.
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Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious;
baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
[1913 Webster] -- {Per*ni"cious*ly}, adv., --
{Per*ni"cious*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. pernix, -icis.]
Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pernicious
adj 1: exceedingly harmful [syn: {baneful}, {deadly},
{pernicious}, {pestilent}]
2: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn:
{insidious}, {pernicious}, {subtle}]
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