prejudicial
adjective
causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
prejudicially
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a word derived from
prejudicial.
Example Sentences
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A bias occurs when you prejudicially favor one person, place, thing, or idea over another.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Schwartz provides a very balanced examination of Kissinger’s intellectual and political trajectory, neither prejudicially critical nor too laudatory: a solid middle ground between the numerous “war criminal” condemnations and the many “SuperK” hagiographies.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2020
It also has a more metaphorical meaning as a phrase indicating that its speaker is stubbornly and perhaps prejudicially unwilling to deal with inevitable changes to a world that he/she no longer feels comfortable in.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2018
Until that time, I had been doubly primed to hate L.A.—I lived in New York and grew up in Northern California, two regions prejudicially disposed against the city.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2014
No Branch shall take any action which affects prejudicially the position or prospects of a Parliamentary candidate, who has received the credentials of the Labor Party, without first laying the case before the N.A.C.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
