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baneful
[beyn-fuhl]
adjective
a baneful superstition.
Archaic., deadly; poisonous.
baneful herbs.
baneful
/ ˈbeɪnfʊl /
adjective
archaic, destructive, poisonous, or fatal
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Other Word Forms
- banefully adverb
- banefulness noun
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He set out to shame that baneful narrative.
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“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.”
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The impact these soldiers had on the South was baneful.
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Washington sternly warned against the “baneful effects of the spirit of party” in his farewell address.
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Ferguson’s “baneful effects lasted longer than any other civil rights decision in American history.”
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