Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a harmful manner.
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- adverb In a
harmful manner.
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- adverb in a detrimental manner
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Examples
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The title of his report, "Night of the Living Fed," not only conveys the danger he anticipates from quantitative easing (it's "a play on the traditional scary Halloween season," Reuters explains) but also suggests that the Fed's program will artificially -- and harmfully -- jolt the tepid economy.
Bill Gross: Fed Policy Is A 'Brazen''Ponzi Scheme' William Alden 2010
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The title of his report, "Night of the Living Fed," not only conveys the danger he anticipates from quantitative easing (it's "a play on the traditional scary Halloween season," Reuters explains) but also suggests that the Fed's program will artificially -- and harmfully -- jolt the tepid economy.
Bill Gross: Fed Policy Is A 'Brazen' 'Ponzi Scheme' William Alden 2010
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Environmentalists said the factory approach harmfully concentrated pollution from animal waste.
Chicken Tycoon Remade Dinnertime Scott Kilman 2011
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And this is exactly where he, and every other Christian leader who preaches that hell is real, gets it so extraordinarily and harmfully wrong.
John Shore: What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get So Terribly Wrong About Hell (VIDEO) John Shore 2011
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The title of his report, "Night of the Living Fed," not only conveys the danger he anticipates from quantitative easing (it's "a play on the traditional scary Halloween season," Reuters explains) but also suggests that the Fed's program will artificially -- and harmfully -- jolt the tepid economy.
Bill Gross: Fed Policy Is A 'Brazen''Ponzi Scheme' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Compared to harmfully misleading or deliberately deceitful love affairs, the prostitute-client relationship is both forthright and unmessy.
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It is a symptom of the way our culture harmfully conflates "masculinity" and male sexuality with violence, a sense of ownership and oppression of women.
Soraya Chemaly: Standing Up to Street Harassment Soraya Chemaly 2011
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It is a symptom of the way our culture harmfully conflates "masculinity" and male sexuality with violence, a sense of ownership and oppression of women.
Soraya Chemaly: Standing Up to Street Harassment Soraya Chemaly 2011
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Such messaging has harmfully impacted our communities and the undersigned organizations urge all candidates, political parties, and those who attain office to ensure that civility and inclusion return to the national political discourse.
Gregory Cendana: Asian American and Pacific Islander Organizations Express Concern Regarding Xenophobic Campaign Rhetoric Gregory Cendana 2010
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And this is exactly where he, and every other Christian leader who preaches that hell is real, gets it so extraordinarily and harmfully wrong.
John Shore: What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get So Terribly Wrong About Hell (VIDEO) John Shore 2011
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