Pernicious
<per-nish-ish>
damaging; bad; harmful
Destructive in a sneaky and gradual way.
The pernicious waves made my sand castle vanish.
Memory trick:
pernicious reminds of permanently vicious.
Used at work:
His pernicious attitude was the reason the project failed.
(c) 2015 E. Carruthers
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