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Meanings of injurious in English

Harmful to living things.

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Containing defamation.

Causing damage or harm.

Evil.

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Examples for "evil"
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The one evil in all is the intolerable length of the debates.
Practical Essays
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The watch caught the eye of the cottager; that evil eye sparkled.
Ernest Maltravers — Volume 01
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It was the meeting-place for all the evil women in the neighbourhood.
Roger Trewinion
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Religion, unfortunately, provides a useful cover and powerful motivator for the evil-hearted.
The Guardian
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And in the same direction lies the remedy for the tenement evil.
Revolution, and Other Essays
Usage of injurious in English
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We present clear examples of the protective and injurious nature of NO.
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Conclusions: More rational psychopharmacological treatments for severe self-injurious behaviour may become available.
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Yes; the injudicious use of a blower is injurious to any boiler.
The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E...
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The impossibility of forming intimacies calculated to be injurious in after life.
Elizabeth Fry
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This is depressing to the defender and is injurious to his morale.
The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training
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Out-of-door labor there is injurious to the white people, as you know.
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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It is a premature food, and the more abundant the more injurious.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
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Sale: And remarkably satisfying when it is injurious to property, not people.
Wired
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The life of the voice will be impaired by such injurious practice.
Vocal Mastery / Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprisi...
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The great majority of drugs have no injurious effect upon the teeth.
A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
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Smith thought early breeding injurious to the swine interests of the country.
The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 / A Weekly ...
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Large-scale landowning proved especially injurious in the Sung period, for two reasons.
A History of China
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Another injurious custom is to sing long, sustained tones in the beginning.
Vocal Mastery / Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprisi...
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This has led us to absurd and injurious extremes in both cases.
Preventable Diseases
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Violet-colored light is positively injurious to plants; they absolutely require white light.
Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 / ...
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Self-injurious behavior is more frequent and more severe in the NIPBL group.
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