Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being deleterious or hurtful.
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- noun The quality of being
deleterious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those whose comforting guidance we seek as a beacon out of the darkness of uncertainty, turn out to be two-faced malfeasants, inflicting untold deleteriousness upon a naively unsuspecting world.
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Page 82 the palm for deleteriousness being awarded, I grieve to say, to the ladies.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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Webster, his unabridged quarto, its deleteriousness.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Rather, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips was quite concerned about the alleged social deleteriousness of it.
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You could (and I did) vigorously argue against the deleteriousness of blind nationalism, for the rights of Palestinians, and your interlocutor, the girl across the dining table, the guy behind the fruit stand, would shift and shuffle, bursting to tell you you were an idiot and an ignoramus, but he would hear you out.
JTA - Recent News 2009
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They stand in the most intimate relation to the deleteriousness of prison life, and are therefore influenced to the greatest extent by change of environment. "
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
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