Word Finder - detrimental

definition

Causing damage or harm.

example

Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health.

It will have detrimental effects on the healing process.

As it turned out, nothing he had kept secret was actually detrimental to their relationship.

The new law will have detrimental influences on future tobacco use.

It was an example of the detrimental effect that passive smoking can have on anyone's health.

She was receiving detrimental treatment on account of her maternity leave.

Stress can be detrimental to your health.

Whenever the weather changes a vapor is exhaled, which I consider very detrimental to health.

The condition had a detrimental impact on the property's value.

The delay in processing the form had not, in this case, proven detrimental to the patent process.

The ruling will be detrimental in the long run.

When I was there, he got on with all the lads and would never say anything detrimental about any player.

Structural faults will have a seriously detrimental effect on its value.

This supposes them to be free from metallic oxides forming easily fusible compounds with silica, such as lime or iron, the presence of the former even in comparatively small proportion being very detrimental.

The report concluded that high volume along Church Street was having a detrimental effect on air quality.

However installing such a device may be a waste of money if it does not work or has detrimental affects.

When we consider its moral effects, whilst endeavouring to avoid exaggeration, we must yet pronounce its influence to have been profoundly detrimental.

However detrimental these redundancies may be to the poetic beauty of the epic, they add enormously to its interest for students of Germanic history or legend.

The names were therefore registered in a manner which took unfair advantage of or was unfairly detrimental to the Complainant's Rights.

Work is being phased over a five-year period to reduce any potentially detrimental effects on wildlife.

It is also against hydro-power as this can have a significantly detrimental impact on the environment.

Quarantine measures were regarded as detrimental to the interests of international commerce.

That is when it become detrimental to the psyche.

It would be detrimental, if not devastating, to our system of justice and unfair to private litigants.

It can be an acceptable alternative to redundancy for employees and trade unions and thus have a less detrimental effect on workforce morale.

The impact of traffic is also having a detrimental impact on the historic townscape.

On one occasion he was stigmatized in a minute by Mr Batson with "having espoused the nawab's cause, and as a hired solicitor defended all his actions, however dishonourable and detrimental to the Company."

To all seeming the pope had admitted the canonicity of several of the decrees of Constance - for instance, he had submitted to the necessity of the periodical convocation of other councils; but from his reticence on some points, as well as from his general attitude and some of his constitutions, it appeared that the whole of the decrees of Constance did not receive his unqualified approval, and without any definite pronouncement he made some reservations in the case of decrees which were detrimental to the rights and pre-eminence of the Holy See.

This measure must have had a detrimental effect on the allies, who thus saw themselves excluded still further from recognition as equal partners in a league (see Pericles).

Although defeated in the mayoralty election, his work on behalf of the merit system, as opposed to the spoils system of politics, was such that he was made a Civil Service commissioner - probably the last office a politician would wish to hold who desired further promotion, for the conflict which a Civil Service commissioner must have with members of Congress and other party leaders on questions of patronage is usually, or, at any rate, has been in the past history of American politics, inevitably detrimental to further official advancement.

Believing that under existing conditions such a step was both detrimental in present policy and unauthorized in law, President Lincoln directed him (2nd September) to modify the order to make it conform to the Confiscation Act of Congress, and on the 11th of September annulled the parts of the order which conflicted with this act.

Or, again, a dominant action in any three of the estates might enact laws highly detrimental to the interests of the remaining estate - a danger the more to be apprehended as in no other country in Europe were class distinctions so sharply defined as in Sweden.

Increased acidity has a detrimental effect on the living coral reefs, as well as shelled creatures.

Avoid plastic bags, cedar chests or cardboard boxes since all of these materials may have a detrimental effect on your newly acquired fabric.

Lack of controlling your feelings could be detrimental to your marriage.

Knowing the dating mistakes men make can help you avoid situations that could be detrimental to your relationships.

This is detrimental to your relationship because one of you will become frustrated with it and attack through one of the other signs of an unhealthy relationship.

Metal cuts and destroys wood, so although there will be many good things ushered in by the wood rabbit, the metal year can have some powerful detrimental effects to those with wood elements.

If you feel that cussing does not have a detrimental effect upon other people and yourself, the first tip from the Cuss Control Academy offers several sound reasons for not cussing.

Unfortunately, they can often cause too much traction which can be severely detrimental to neatly groomed baseball fields.

These diets, though they may initially work, can have potentially detrimental effects on long-term health.

In the report they warn that continuing to have women wear skimpy athletic uniforms can have a detrimental effect on encouraging younger women to participate in athletics due to body image issues.

Practically all the company's servants were traders in their private capacity, and as they claimed various privileges and exemptions this system was detrimental to the interests of the native princes and gave rise to an enormous amount of corruption.

Into the dyeing of silk it is not here necessary to enter, except in so far as concerns a nefarious practice, carried on in dye-houses, which has exercised a most detrimental influence on the silk trade.

German statesmen, under the powerful stimulus of the emperor William II., have, in the eyes of some critics, carried this secondary object of conscript training to such excess as to be detrimental to military efficiency.

There was violent antipathy between the Christain Socialists and the German Nationalists, and the transference of their quarrels from the Viennese Council Chamber to the Reichsrath was very detrimental to the orderly conduct of debate.

It is also extremely detrimental to those third world countries looking to export agricultural produce.

They are able to actively discourage activities which they see as detrimental to the wellbeing of the hunt and the deer.

The countess was accustomed to this tone as a precursor of news of something detrimental to the children's interests, such as the building of a new gallery or conservatory, the inauguration of a private theater or an orchestra.

Both of these are detrimental to the self-adhesive backing of the vibration damping sheet.

Avoiding simple carbohydrates (sugars), while keeping complex carbohydrates (starches and fibers), will help you lose weight, or maintain your weight, without detrimental health effects.