Washington Post columnist: Christians 'pernicious'
A columnist at the Washington Post has used a column about a gardening book to deliver a dig at Christians, calling the missionaries who traveled to the Hawaiian Islands while the region still was a kingdom "pernicious."
That's the word defined in various online dictionaries as:
* "baneful: exceedingly harmful"
* "insidious: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
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