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  • 61detrimental — I adjective adverse, afflicting, bad, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, disadvantageous, disastrous, discommodious, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, extirpative, fulsome, grievous, harmful, hindering, hurtful, ill… …

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  • 62harmful — harm·ful adj: of a kind likely to cause harm harm·ful·ly adv harm·ful·ness n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. harmful …

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  • 63inadvisable — I adjective adverse, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, disapproved, harmful, hurtful, ill advised, ill considered, ill judged, impolitic, imprudent, inappropriate, inexpedient, infelicitous, injudicious, injurious, inopportune,… …

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  • 64insalubrious — I adjective baleful, baneful, calamitous, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, fraught with danger, gravis, harmful, hazardous, hurtful, injurious, insalubris, lethal, lethiferous, malefic,… …

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  • 65pernicious — I adjective adverse, affliciting, baleful, baneful, brutal, calamitous, catastrophic, corrosive, crippling, cruel, damaging, deadly, death bringing, death dealing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devouring, diabolic,… …

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  • 66prejudicial — prej·u·di·cial /ˌpre jə di shəl/ adj: having the effect of prejudice: as a: tending to injure or impair rights such a transfer would be prejudicial to other creditors b: leading to a decision or judgment on an improper basis the evidence was… …

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  • 67unfavorable — I adjective adverse, adversus, antagonistic, bad, calamitous, contrary, damaging, derogatory, deterrent, disadvantageous, disapprobatory, discouraging, disparaging, foul, hopeless, hostile, ill boding, ill disposed, ill omened, impedimental,… …

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  • 68unwise — I adjective detrimental, disadvantageous, fatuous, foolish, ill advised, ill considered, ill contrived, ill devised, ill judged, ill managed, illogical, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inane, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inept,… …

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  • 69adverse — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Hostile] Syn. antagonistic, conflicting, inimical; see opposing 2 , unfriendly 1 . 2. [Unfavorable] Syn. unpropitious, inopportune, disadvantageous; see unfavorable 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a.… …

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  • 70Evil — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Evil >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 evil evil ill harm hurt GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 mischief mischief nuisance Sgm: N 2 machinations of the devil machinations of the devil Pandora s box ills that …

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