Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a deleterious manner; injuriously.
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- adverb In a
deleterious manner;harmfully .
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Examples
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If this practice is sound, then we can conclude that most Congressional Republicans are vacuous, irrational dimwits who let their delusions and personal demons deleteriously affect their decision-making ability.
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The consequences are felt most deleteriously by the poorest farmers at the end of the supply chain, men such as Moussa, who battle each year to eke out an existence.
The desperate plight of Africa's cotton farmers Elizabeth Day 2010
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Non-governmental organizations argue that transfer pricing deleteriously affects the budgets of developing countries that lack the administrative resources to fight with well-represented multinationals.
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"Is my apathy going to deleteriously impact my child, leaving little possibility for healthy attachment and deep connection?"
Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Postpartum Depression 2010
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If you're in a meeting with a client and the positive presumption has kicked in, you're not focused on how you're doing in that deleteriously self-conscious way.
Jim Luce: Wall Street Lawyer on "The Positive Presumption" 2009
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The end result was, and is, the same: that the personal bigotry of a majority deleteriously shapes the reality of a minority, and for no reason other than that it can.
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Think, in that kind of tumultuous environment, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific will keep us immune, will not deleteriously (VERY deleteriously!) effect YOU?
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And most deleteriously in Washington state, parents must do that without the option of either public charter schools or tuition vouchers for use in non-denominational private schools.
Sound Politics: Seattle Racial Tiebreaker To SCOTUS Monday 2006
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And most deleteriously in Washington state, parents must do that without the option of either public charter schools or tuition vouchers for use in non-denominational private schools.
Sound Politics: Seattle Racial Tiebreaker To SCOTUS Monday 2006
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The paradigm spreads the values and methods of physics to other sciences he thinks scientifically and socially deleteriously.
The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007
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