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  • That decision would be detrimental to the interests of my client.
    detrimental = harmful
  • Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life.  (source)
    detriment = harm
  • The key is to set up some rules: which combinations of motion vectors are "healthy" and "beneficial," and which combinations are "detrimental" and "harmful."†  (source)
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  • It's his only detriment.†  (source)
    detriment = harm or damage
  • It suggested that he must have made — or had been planning to make — more Horcruxes, so that the loss of his first would not be so detrimental.†  (source)
  • It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had, that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.†  (source)
    detrimentally = in a manner that causes harm or damage
  • Thus did the typewriters clack through the night, until that historic document had been crafted which guaranteed for all Russians freedom of conscience (Article 13), freedom of expression (Article 14), freedom of assembly (Article 15), and freedom to have any of these rights revoked should they be "utlitized to the detriment of the socialist revolution" (Article 23)!†  (source)
    detriment = harm or damage
  • After it's completely off, I wrap my legs around his waist and lock him against me, because there could be nothing more detrimental than if he were to pull away right now.†  (source)
  • Clennam thought (and as he thought it, again felt ashamed of himself), was this notion of being disappointed in life, an assertion of station which the bridegroom brought into the family as his property, having already carried it detrimentally into his pursuit?†  (source)
    detrimentally = in a manner that causes harm or damage
  • But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me.†  (source)
    detriment = harm or damage
  • What's more, they are detrimental to the revolution, so we must oppose them resolutely.†  (source)
  • I'll stay, Carlisle, but it might be to your detriment.†  (source)
  • My parents had witnessed over and over how committed I was to taking care of and improving my health, and so on this subject they had decided to challenge me, talking with me about, and demonstrating to me through their own research, concerns about the detrimental effects of ingesting too many carbonated drinks.†  (source)
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