injurious
adjective
harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect.
injuriousness
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a word derived from
injurious.
Example Sentences
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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
Automakers created minivans and SUVs, alternative models that provided interior roominess while reducing injuriousness.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2018
Congress entertained an opinion of its injuriousness to the character of the Indians, and passed laws excluding it.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
That circumstance, therefore, is probably the cause of its injuriousness.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
The injuriousness of fogs and low temperatures will be presently dwelt upon at greater length.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various
