deleterious
adjective
injurious to health.
deleteriously
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a word derived from
deleterious.
Example Sentences
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The idea is that his storehouse of knowledge, plus the other storehouses of knowledge, will keep the nerve endings from revolting deleteriously.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
But what’s happening to him is making people feel wary at work; that their behavior might be misconstrued, their words misunderstood, their history deleteriously revisited.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021
How could Buffett and company, in this fun-starved beach party, so deleteriously have taken their eye off the ball?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2018
He got a virus from leucemic mice, which affected other mice deleteriously.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our chief misfortune is the cowardly servility towards those above and the chasing after popularity below, which characterize our provincial councillor; consequently public business, the chase, land-tax, etc., are all deleteriously affected.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
