Synonyms:
harmful
Meaning: causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
Usage examples
The schools are no good to me, but positively harmful, as I told you.
Even such drugs as are prescribed by physicians have harmful effects, and nostrums recommended by druggists are often worse still.
And as far as I can see that it does this, I think the show right and helpful; and whenever it does not, I think it harmful and misleading.
A correct forward-placing of the tone will do away with the dark, throaty tones that are so unpleasant, inefficient, and harmful to the throat.
The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty.
Caution, circumspection, prudence, desire to foresee future events so as to avert what is harmful, these desirable traits are as much a product of calling the impulse of fear into play as is cowardice and abject submission.
In order thus to accept all, one should understand that, according to his teaching, it is stupid and harmful for the individual to revolt against, or endeavor to overthrow, the limits of established religious and state forms.
Thus in a time of trouble ever memorable to him after the birth of their first child who was delicate, when they had to change the wet nurse three times and Natasha fell ill from despair, Pierre one day told her of Rousseau's view, with which he quite agreed, that to have a wet nurse is unnatural and harmful.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Watchmen, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wiki, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Earth, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Learned helplessness, License CC BY-SA 4.0
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