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detrimental

adjective as in damaging, disadvantageous

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Sometimes they are detrimental to the virus, and that lineage will quickly die off.

Ultimately those services proved detrimental to restaurants, even those that never signed on for their services in the first place.

From Eater

There’s been consistent coverage of their detrimental impact on workers ever since the phrase “gig economy” was first uttered, but the pandemic has increased the public’s awareness of exactly how they harm the restaurant industry.

From Eater

This was despite such flying being so detrimental to mental and physical wellbeing, let alone productivity given total door-to-door time wasted and even jet lag, he said.

From Digiday

Procurement shouldn’t be a bad thing for senior marketers and subsequently agencies but there’s no doubt it can have a detrimental impact on some pitches.

From Digiday

The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.

Well, that is very beneficial to the spouse who has a new job in LA, but detrimental to the one who left a job in New York.

Fonda was always willing to speak out even when it might be detrimental to her career.

And, for that reason alone, they can be more detrimental to others.

The company batted off concerns over rising prices and the detrimental effects on competition and consumer choice.

As a good-looking young bachelor, though a detrimental, he had been very popular.

According to this comparison, we have a right to reject it, if we find it detrimental to the welfare of mankind.

I suggested that it might be possible to get a secure twenty thousand a year by at least detrimental methods—socially speaking.

What we may do to correct, insure or perfect our healthy tissues will have a detrimental effect upon some other part of our body.

All their effect on him was detrimental: they turned him black.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detrimental, such as: adverse, destructive, disturbing, harmful, hurtful, and inimical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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