Example Sentences

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It typically dries out the soil in an unbeneficial way, in a detrimental way.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2021

The decree announcing the measures said they were necessary because "the global economic crisis has resulted in uncertainty and caused unbeneficial impact to the economy of Indonesia."

From Time Magazine Archive

The iron road was to come, and come it did, all conquering and, not so unbeneficial, after all, in its rule.

From The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway by Gasquoine, C. P. (Charles Penrhyn)