harmful
adjective
causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
harmfully
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a word derived from
harmful.
Example Sentences
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Meta has faced similar scrutiny across the Atlantic including a US trial this year which ruled Meta's and YouTube's platforms were harmfully addictive.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
That is even with TikTok's community guidelines asking users to "label realistic AI-generated content" and banning content considered to "harmfully mislead or impersonate others".
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Many also tell me that they’ve suffered from this same cycle of toxic productivity, that is, when the constant need to “do” harmfully impacts your physical, mental, and emotional health.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2022
But the American Medical Association complained that the COVID-19 drugs could interact harmfully with drugs for other conditions and that physicians, who don’t typically staff pharmacies, are best equipped to prescribe them safely.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 9, 2022
It has long been known that bad corn would kill horses, but notwithstanding this, we have accepted the view that no amount of deterioration in the grain could result harmfully to man.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
