Deleterious Meaning and Usage

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Deleterious Meaning:

adjective
- harmful or injurious
- harmful to living things; having a harmful effect; noxious


Deleterious Usage:

"deleterious chemical additives"
“the deleterious effects of smoking.”

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Use deleterious in a sentence:

1. Pollution has a deleterious effect on the environment.

2. Her wanton behaviour was deleterious to her children.

3. Deleterious fumes escaped from the overturned truck.

4. Some chemicals have deleterious effects on those who must handle them.

5. Month after month, reports mount of the deleterious effects of rising carbon levels. One recent study chronicled threats to coral and other marine organisms, another, a big upswing in major wildfires in the western U.S. that have resulted because of warming.

6. Petroleum and its products will continue to fetch escalating prices with new and deleterious effects on the world's economies and politics

7. Using steroids can be deleterious to your health.

8. Reducing the staff in order to cut costs will have deleterious consequences for production levels. One person can not handle printing, pulling, packing and shaping 500 orders each day.

9. The deleterious effects of smoking include having greater risk of heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.

10. The deleterious habit of grinding your teeth can be extremely detrimental to your dental health.

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Deleterious Synonyms:
adverse, bad, damaging, destroying, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruining, ruinous.

Deleterious Antonyms:
aiding, assisting, helpful, beneficial.

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Some more examples:

1. Too much sun has a deleterious effect on the skin.

2. Consumption of too much fast food can be detrimental to your health.

3. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the type of marking has any deleterious effects on juvenile fish.

4. Smoking cigarettes is deleterious to everyone’s health, not just the smoker’s.

5. An infestation of locusts can have a deleterious effect on a farmer’s crops.

6. Averroes, like most of the later Mohammedan philosophers, though a believer, was not rigidly orthodox. There was a sect of completely orthodox theologians, who objected to all philosophy as deleterious to the faith. One of these, named Algazel, wrote a book called Destruction of the Philosophers, pointing out that, since all necessary truth is in the Koran, there is no need of speculation independent of revelation. Averroes replied by a book called Destruction of the Destruction. – History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell.

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