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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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
To admit, of course, in the first place, the injuriousness to the 'popularity,' of the scriptural tone.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
It is clear that some form of selection must always co-operate in degeneration, such as economy of growth, which he hardly notices except as a possible but not a necessary factor, or actual injuriousness.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by James Marchant
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
