Perniciousness

The answer

HARM

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HARM answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HARM

Every other clue in this collection answered by HARM, most used first.

• Injure - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
• Damage - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Do damage to - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Injury - used 34 times, most recently in 2021
• "No ___, no foul" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Detriment - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Impair - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Hurt - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Wrong - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Cause damage to - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Mischief - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
• "No ___ done" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Cause injury to - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Hippocratic oath no-no - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Disserve - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "First, do no ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Maltreat - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Sharpen - HONE, used 498 times
• Mata ___ - HARI, used 319 times
• Roll call response - HERE, used 235 times
• Present - HERE, used 212 times
• Wife of Zeus - HERA, used 209 times
• Circle dance - HORA, used 203 times

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