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baneful

adjective as in ruinous, injurious

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He set out to shame that baneful narrative.

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“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.”

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The impact these soldiers had on the South was baneful.

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Washington sternly warned against the “baneful effects of the spirit of party” in his farewell address.

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Ferguson’s “baneful effects lasted longer than any other civil rights decision in American history.”

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