detrimental
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Conduct Detrimental to All Involved Monday was not a good day to be Ben Roethlisberger.
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2010
Detrimental Elements.—Sulphur and phosphorus are two elements known to be detrimental to all steels.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
Detrimental effects.—The pity of it all is that the child is at the mercy of the parent, or of the teacher, as the case may be.
From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.
Increase of Fixed Capital, when, at the Expense of Circulating, might be Detrimental to the Laborers.§
From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart
Vocabulary lists containing detrimental
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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