But it is indeed in Uttar Pradesh that we see the deepest sympathy for this deleterious machismo.
Drugs are becoming more powerful with prescription painkillers used to enhance effect and prolong a deleterious pleasure.
But the truth is that they have real and deleterious effects on conservative politics.
Corporations exerted an unchecked and deleterious influence on the lives of workers.
How much of these problems can be credited to the deleterious effects of enormous inherited wealth, we will never know.
But it is also true that some of the most deleterious books we have are romances.
Moreover, slavish imitation in any art has a deleterious influence.
I hope the bill will pass without any deleterious amendments.
War is unlikely to begin in India, and the climate is deleterious in the summer months.
The vapor of charcoal in a close room is so deleterious as to cause death.
1640s, from Medieval Latin deleterius, from Greek deleterios "noxious," from deleter "destroyer," from deleisthai "to hurt, injure." Related: Deleteriously; deleteriousness.
deleterious del·e·te·ri·ous (děl'ĭ-tēr'ē-əs)
adj.
Having a harmful effect; injurious.