Deleterious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DELETERIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• harmful, injurious
• causing harm or damage
• Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.
• harmful to living things
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way

Words related to DELETERIOUS

deleteriously17

Words that contain DELETERIOUS

deleteriously17 deleteriousness16 deleteriousnesses18

How to use DELETERIOUS in a sentence

• This sense warns the animal against swallowing deleterious substances.
• She has been nurtured upon the most deleterious food, which I will prove to you immediately.
• I had never seen any one so young, bearing such evident marks of the effects of this deleterious drug.
• Considerable difficulty seems to be experienced in many quarters in getting really good bread free from chemicals and other deleterious matters.
• The horn is often exposed to the vicious influences of unsuitable litter, the application of unsuitable dressings, and the deleterious effects of the street mud of our cities.
• The trade with the south had not the deleterious effects of the trade with Central Asia.
• We forbid sulphur as much as possible in our lighting gas, because we find it is deleterious in our rooms.
• The greater part of the atmosphere must therefore be impregnated with this deleterious gas.
• The colouring matter which they emit has no stinging, electric or deleterious properties whatever, that I could discover.
• My insistence upon a proper understanding of the unreality of matter and evil arises from their deleterious effects, physical, moral, and intellectual, upon the race.
• For the same purpose, pins were formerly employed, but these were strictly forbidden, on account of their deleterious tendency on the water.
• The poison is certainly deleterious, but not in so terrific a degree as has been represented.
• For nearly 12 hours the atmosphere had been gradually becoming more and more charged with this deleterious gas, produced from the combustion of the blood by the inspired oxygen.
• Even this admixture could not be considered deleterious.
• This agent will render the oil of a dark brown or black colour, if any metal, deleterious to health, be present.
• Quinine, use of, deleterious in case of colds, 280.
• Some of the shallower historians would have us believe that powder is deleterious to the race of footmen.
• Only some few of our native Ferns are known to possess medicinal virtues, though they may all be happily pronounced devoid of poisonous or deleterious properties.
• Deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, harmful, mischievous, pernicious, ruinous.
• It happens, therefore, that in a confined space and after a certain time all the oxygen of the air is replaced by carbonic acid, an essentially deleterious gas.
• The black specks were thought to be grains of tin, and to have communicated a deleterious quality to the water used by the shipwrecked people.
• Champagne and ponies were, as faults, less deleterious.
• This person is then compelled to drink what they call saucy-water, the infusion of the bark of a tree, well known for its deleterious qualities.
• One or two instances of its deleterious effects have been witnessed by my much esteemed friend Dr.
• Differences might be deleterious to the concept of the tribe.
• It was her belief that physical prostitution was less of a deleterious moral injustice to oneself than any other kind.
• For whatever chimerical ideas she had about isolation in Antarctica she knew that too little society, as too much of it, would be deleterious.
• Were these the feelings of a secondary will or was it the voice of God trying to choke deleterious determination before she was choked by it? This too was an unknown.
• If it was no longer manipulated in ways frankly corrupt, it was manipulated in a fashion just as deleterious to Ireland.
• It might seem strange that his memory should not have kept her beyond the reach of deleterious influences.

Similar words containing LETERIOU without suffix s and without prefix de

deleteriously17 deleteriousness16 deleteriousnesses18

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