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Definition of the day : « detrimental »

  • adj damaging, disadvantageous
Example sentences :
  • The army and navy also exert a detrimental action on sexual life.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • That brings about a confusion and a disorder which must be detrimental.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • All their effect on him was detrimental: they turned him black.
  • Extract from : « A Boswell of Baghdad » by E. V. Lucas
  • The chemical action of the sun's rays is detrimental to combustion.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853. » by Various
  • No material advantage can be regarded with favor that is detrimental to the characters of men.
  • Extract from : « Usury » by Calvin Elliott
  • Like various other vestiges of ancient organs, it is not only useless but detrimental.
  • Extract from : « Man And His Ancestor » by Charles Morris
  • It is detrimental to the voter whose proclivity is thereby determined.
  • Extract from : « Shadow and Light » by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
  • Flo, separated from her detrimental uncle, and placed in a convent school!
  • Extract from : « From Sand Hill to Pine » by Bret Harte
  • Her evident unhappiness was causing him to worry, and that was most detrimental.
  • Extract from : « Meg of Mystery Mountain » by Grace May North
  • This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.
  • Extract from : « Frankenstein » by Mary W. Shelley