baneful

• “Yesterday, Agricola made me read an article in a newspaper, in which violent blame and bitter irony are by turns employed, to attack what they call the baneful tendencies of some of the lower orders, to improve themselves, to write, to read the poets, and sometimes to make verses.”

  The Wandering Jew — Volume 07

• “That man Clarke has some kind of baneful influence over her.”

  The Tyranny of the Dark

• “Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “Many of the founders welcomed the economic crisis because it would force Americans to abandon the luxuries that Thomas Jefferson called a “more baneful evil than toryism was during the war.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “When looking at the nation's debt, the situation is even more baneful.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Pento: Rising Rates Reveal Debt Reality

• “While there are some things about the "postmodern" critique of culture with which I agree, one of its most baneful conseqeunces is the way in which it has swept up what was postmodern fiction into its smothering arms and blocked our view of what this fiction is really like.”

  Postmodernism

• “Yes it would be a baneful herald of the apocalypse for children to read the dictionary of all things.”

  Today's Little Rainbow

• “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”

  Advice to Our Next President, From Our First President

• “My upbringing instilled in me all-pervasive fear — the sense that most everything in life (especially pleasure and taking chances) was baneful; that good existed only in the afterlife; that people, places, and things were never to be trusted.”

  Best of 2009: Web tool and learning experience

• “Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.”

  Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda

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