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deleterious adj. harmful. deleterious adjective adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, consuming, corroding, corrosive, damaging, deadly, disserviceable, envenomed, fatal, foul, harmful, injurious to health, insalubrious, lethal, malefic, maleficent, malignant, miasmal, morbiferous, morbific, nocuous, noxious, noxius, pernicious, pestilential, poisonous, septic, toxic, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unhealthy, unsatisfactory, venomous, virulent, wasting Associated concepts: deleterious drug, deleterious substance See also: adverse, bad, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, fatal, harmful, inadvisable, inferior, insalubrious, malevolent, malignant, negative, noxious, peccant, pernicious, pestilent, prejudicial, toxic, virulent How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The broad scope of tasks deleteriously affected by color confusion should, by itself, give weight to the importance of deficits. Tonight's episode reveals the sinister extents to which Palmer's ex-wife Sherrie (Penny Johnson-Jerald) will go to exact revenge, how bad luck just seems to trail after Jack's daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) like that cloud of dust follows Pigpen in the ``Peanuts'' comic strip, and how deleteriously obstinate government officials can be when it comes to ignoring common sense. Thus, the bill could ironically spawn numerous time-consuming disputes over whether particular projects even fall within the ambit of the regulatory reform measure and hence deleteriously delay the issuance of final tax rules. |
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