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Automakers created minivans and SUVs, alternative models that provided interior roominess while reducing injuriousness.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2018

They could be designed and marketed to minimize their excessive lethality and injuriousness while preserving their usefulness to legitimate users.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2018

Such a minister is patient with the stupid, and even with the wicked and the injurious, because in all their stupidity and wickedness and injuriousness they have only injured and impoverished themselves. 

From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Whyte, Alexander

So that, to put it roughly, all that would be necessary practically to neutralize the injuriousness of the bacillus would be to prevent about one-twentieth of the exposures to its invasion which actually occurred.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

Determined in respect of character by either injuriousness or peacefulness, mildness or fierceness, righteousness or unrighteousness, truthfulness or untruthfulness, each creature, at every new creation, obtains that particular attribute which it had cherished before.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan