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PERNICIOUSLY
Definition of PERNICIOUSLY
adverb
In a pernicious manner.
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Other senses
PERNICIOUSLY carries 4 further meanings.
In a pernicious or hurtful manner; destructively; with ruinous tendency or effect.
Maliciously; malignantly.
adverb
in a noxiously baneful way
adverb
in a harmfully insidious manner
Where it comes from
From pernicious + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
PERNICIOUSLY in a sentence
“It affects how we think about and talk about rape, perniciously affecting how we treat rape victims, how we prosecute rapists and how we try to prevent future rapes from occurring.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PERNICIOUSLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 107 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PERNICIOUSLY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEIILNOPRSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PERNICIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found PERNICIOUSLY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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