detrimental
adjective
causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
detrimentally
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a word derived from
detrimental.
Example Sentences
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Yet Whitten clearly struggled with his sense of self — despite the fact that his sexuality, an open fact, didn’t detrimentally impact his career crafting images for others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
These chemical pollutants then enter the human food chain and water supply, detrimentally impacting the health of approximately 92 million individuals annually.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2023
“Each leg of the U.S. nuclear triad could be detrimentally affected by climate change,” Kwong said.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 14, 2023
Sandra Isherwood, the principal of Jones Memorial Primary School, in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, said pupils were "detrimentally affected by their access to agencies and support with the cuts they have in mind".
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
