damage
noun
injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness.
Example Sentences
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More damagingly, it doesn’t seem as if Hnath’s Nora has evolved all that much from the skittishly coquettish wife of Ibsen’s play.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
The Little complaint lays out the same basic facts of the 2022 Salon article, but adds the charge that Hogshead falsely and damagingly piggybacked on SafeSport’s retaliatory investigation of Little, one of its leading critics.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025
Page's future has been the subject of intense scrutiny since he oversaw defeats in June against Turkey and, most damagingly, at home by Armenia.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023
All of these players were dishonest, with their allies, their adversaries, and, most damagingly, themselves.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2021
Perhaps most damagingly, two private eyes, including one from the Burns agency, tried to expose the bureau’s main informant, Kelsie Morrison.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
