Sample Sentences fordeleterious (auto-selected)
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Serious delirious imperious weary us deleterious ways. (source)deleterious = harmful
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He required his pupils to take the following oath: I will follow that system or regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider to be for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. (source)
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3 percent of all earth bacteria are capable of exerting some deleterious effect upon man. (source)
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As he would say, "To use the dreaded word 'cancer' in connection with any clinical procedure on an ill person is potentially deleterious to that patient's well-being, because it may suggest to him (rightly or wrongly) that his diagnosis is cancer or that his prognosis is poor." (source)
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And weight carried around the middle is more deleterious than extra pounds in the butt.† (source)
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The combination of being so roughly handled by Barb Wiggin and discovering that my grandmother had been free to attend the pageant—but had chosen not to attend—was deleterious to Owen's mood; he grew cranky and petulant.† (source)
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"Dex," as it is known, can temporarily negate the deleterious effects of altitude; each member of Fischer's team carried repared syringe of the drug in a plastic toothbrush case inside a prep his or her down suit, where it wouldn't freeze, for emergencies.† (source)
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It contained inhabitants of as undeleterious and self-satisfied a class of peasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeleterious means not and reverses the meaning of deleterious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Or might it suffice him that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?† (source)
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But a casual inbreeding was beginning to have deleterious effects on some of the oldest families.† (source)
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Moody had tried to tell me that it had no deleterious effects in Iran, but I knew that many of the couples in this room were cousins married to cousins.† (source)
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"Herr Zalachenko ....I'm afraid that a process has been set in motion in which the deleterious effects are hard to foresee," Sandberg said.† (source)
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Now, as a proof of my susceptibility to atmosphere, here, as I come into my room, and turn on the light, and see the sheet of paper, the table, my gown lying negligently over the back of the chair, I feel that I am that dashing yet reflective man, that bold and deleterious figure, who, lightly throwing off his cloak, seizes his pen and at once flings off the following letter to the girl with whom he is passionately in love.† (source)
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It's deleterious to a basic human love of life—let me explain what I mean.† (source)
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The Captain continued that deleterious amusement of smoking, long after the inn and the street were gone to bed.† (source)
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He was a mournful dyspeptic, intent on finding out the deleterious ingredients of every dish and diverted from this care only by the sound of his wife's voice.† (source)
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