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Injurious Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0
- injurious
adj
- harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful]
- tending to cause great harm [syn: evil, harmful]
- Injurious \In*ju"ri*ous\, a. [L. injuriousus, injurius; cf. F.
injurieux. See Injury.]
- Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. [Obs.] --Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. --Shak.
- Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc. Without being injurious to the memory of our English Pindar. --Dryden. Syn: Harmful; hurtful; pernicious; mischievous; baneful; deleterious; noxious; ruinous; detrimental.
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Wikipedia Meaning and Definition on 'Injurious'
- Self-Injurious Behavior Inhibiting System: The Self-Injurious Behavior Inhibiting System (SIBIS) is an apparatus used as a treatment method for self-injurious behavior . ...
- Last injurious exposure rule: In law , the last injurious exposure rule is the principle that when an occupational disease was caused by a succession of jobs, or could ...
Words and phrases related to 'Injurious'
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| Corrupting | Corruptive | Counterproductive | Damaging | Deadly |
| Defamatory | Deleterious | Deprecatory | Derogatory |
'Injurious' in famous quotation sentence
* The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson
* False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness. - Charles Robert Darwin
* Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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* False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness. - Charles Robert Darwin
* Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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Injurious Sample Sentences in News
- UMC Pastor Performing Son's Gay Wedding Was 'Injurious to the Church,' Says Good News Leader
A conservative United Methodist pastor with a traditional view of marriage says that a clergyman set to be on trial for officiating his son's gay wedding acted in a way that is "injurious to the church." Read more on this news related to 'Injurious' - Two dies in Kadugannawa accident
Two persons were killed and another sustained serious injurious when the car they were travelling in crashed into a bus parked on the roadside in Kadugannawa this morning, the police said. Read more on this news related to 'Injurious' - 5 Ways How Smoking Can Affect Your Insurance Policy
Bangalore: Smoking is injurious to health this is not just said by medical practitioners but is also imprinted on the cigarette packs. Studies found out that there is an increase in the consumption of tobacco in India in one form or the other, with 57 percent males and 10.8 percent females. Read more on this news related to 'Injurious'
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