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deleterious
de-luh-TEER-ee-uhs
adjective
something which has a negative effect
1845Charles Darwin The Voyage of the BeagleMysterious as this circumstance appears to be, it is not more surprising than that the body of one's fellow-creature, directly after death, and before putrefaction has commenced, should often be of so deleterious a quality that the mere puncture from an instrument used in its dissection should prove fatal. 1972Warren Murphy and Richard Ben SapirDeath CheckYour presence here seems to have a deleterious effect on the quietude of our little rest home.1996Brian ClarkDinoshiftAlthough the SD projects had not triggered the space-time discontinuance forecast by Stennerdahl and others, in its collective wisdom the Assembly instructed the Secretary General to suspend the Shift Dispersion program pending 'further investigation of any deleterious effects on the environment'.

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