detrimental

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"If a child is on the street it's a consequence of something far more detrimental, which is intergenerational family violence," Travis Ning, director-general of JUCONI, told America. gov.

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  1. adjective Causing damage or harm; injurious.

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  • But whether that effect is detrimental, as researchers initially suspected, remains a mystery. —  Biosingularity
  • Other conditions such as old age, alcoholism, smoking, and exposure to excessive pollution have long-term detrimental effects to the body system which can be successfully counteracted by multivitamins. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Denying them lower tuition rates so they can more easily further their education and become more productive is detrimental, the report says. —  Press of Atlantic City: Editorials
  • Sending these women back home could be detrimental, and it often is. —  Stabroek News
  • "Clearly abortion does violence by destroying the unborn and by the immediate and long term detrimental consequences to the physical and mental health of pregnant women and for their dignity," he wrote. —  Latest Articles
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  1. from Middle Latin *detrimentalis, from Latin detrimentum, harm: see detriment.
 

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/dɛtrɪˈmɛntəl/
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