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injurious

/in-joor-ee-uhs/US // ɪnˈdʒʊər i əs //UK // (ɪnˈdʒʊərɪəs) //

有害的,伤害性,有害,损害性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
    • : doing or involving injury or wrong, as to another: injurious behavior.
    • : insulting; abusive; defamatory; offensive: an injurious statement.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.hurtful

Examples

  • Implying otherwise is practically and intellectually incorrect, and injurious to the public who need reliable power.

  • Why should speech be exempt from public welfare concerns when its social costs can be even more injurious?

  • Is calling for the eradication of Israel—subtly or overtly—potentially injurious?

  • Certainly, those policies are extreme and would be deeply injurious to middle-class and poorer Americans should they be enacted.

  • He is at risk of being pulled into that most dangerous of all places, the injurious world of celebrity.

  • To the extent that his wins prove injurious, future Republican Congresses and administrations will struggle to undo them.

  • These fish are very tempting and delicate, and are not so injurious as shellfish are apt to be.

  • The Paraguayans consider excessive smoking of other tobacco as injurious but not of the delicate flavored leaf of Paraguay.

  • The vow is nothing; yea, worse than nothing; injurious to those who make it, and dishonouring to God, if it be not performed.

  • Others, again, maintain that it is positively injurious to the general health of the patient.

  • No one can argue that this useless and, to some extent, injurious condition is a designed result of creation.