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synonyms for damaging

  • detrimental
  • harmful
  • injurious
  • prejudicial
  • ruinous
  • bad
  • deleterious
  • disadvantageous
  • evil
  • mischievous
  • nocent
  • nocuous
On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to damaging, such as: detrimental, harmful, injurious, prejudicial, ruinous, and bad.

antonyms for damaging

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  • advantageous
  • assisting
  • beneficial
  • helpful
  • favorable
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How to use damaging in a sentence

As investors become more risk-averse, industry insiders expect that the funding slowdown to prove most damaging for young companies as venture capital likely tilts towards established startups with proven business models.
VENTURE CAPITAL FIRMS ARE COLLABORATING TO KEEP NIGERIAN STARTUPS ALIVEYOMI KAZEEMSEPTEMBER 2, 2020QUARTZ
Credit Suisse is struggling to move beyond one of the most damaging episodes in its recent history after it spied on star banker Iqbal Khan, who was leaving for rival UBS Group AG.
SWISS REGULATORS EXTEND PROBE INTO SPYING AT CREDIT SUISSEKDUNN6SEPTEMBER 2, 2020FORTUNE
Extreme one-off events can be far more damaging for companies and societies at large.
COVID-19 AND CLIMATE CHANGE EXPOSE THE DANGERS OF UNSTABLE SUPPLY CHAINSMATTHEWHEIMERAUGUST 27, 2020FORTUNE
Murthy had found compelling the argument that loneliness was increasing and that loneliness can be damaging, even physiologically damaging.
IS THERE REALLY A “LONELINESS EPIDEMIC”? (EP. 407)STEPHEN J. DUBNERFEBRUARY 27, 2020FREAKONOMICS
To suggest that it’s the most damaging environmental thing we do is, I think, a pretty extreme overstatement.
THE FUTURE OF MEAT (EP. 367 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAUGUST 29, 2019FREAKONOMICS
He missed no opportunity of thwarting and damaging the Government which had saved him from the gallows.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
That officer hurled his troops against Sherman's breastworks, and suffered a damaging defeat.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
For one thing, she had kept to the truth when she might have made her hints more damaging by a little exaggeration.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSS
The nocturnal mischief of damaging or destroying a neighbor's corn.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBON
Seiler thinks that only the Trojans used the battle-axe; perhaps for damaging the ships: he follows the scholiast.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANG
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WORDS RELATED TO DAMAGING

  • damaging
  • dangerous
  • deleterious
  • detrimental
  • hurtful
  • injurious
  • ruinous
  • unhealthy
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