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detrimental

Definition for detrimental

adjective as in damaging, disadvantageous

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The back-and-forth over key operations and their long-term uncertainty has been detrimental to the agency, employees said.

He believes football's 'win-at-all-costs' approach is having a detrimental effect on the mental health and performance of current and future referees.

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A much-weakened yen would be detrimental to the White House’s attempts to narrow the U.S.’s trade deficit with Japan and complicate any future U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, at least from Tokyo’s perspective.

Security Minister Mahamadou Sana said the NGO had "collected and passed on sensitive security information that could be detrimental to national security and the interests of Burkina Faso, to foreign powers".

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Denying this could have "a detrimental impact on the young person's wellbeing, relationships and behaviour and this is often clearly apparent to teachers, parents and carers", the guidance says.

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

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