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Definition of injurious
1 : inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental injurious to health
2 : abusive, defamatory speak not injurious words — George Washington
injuriously
adverbinjuriousness
nounFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of injurious in a Sentence
The decision has had an injurious effect.
inaccurate news reports are injurious to the public's faith in the media
Recent Examples of injurious from the Web
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Delaware allows it be used for autism with self-injurious or aggressive behavior.
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Other times, children and adolescents become withdrawn, socially isolated and may engage in self-injurious behaviors including cutting or burning.
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Many of these are injurious and insulting to the students who already hold marginalized positions within the university.
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Any small break in the wood, Oz remembers, there could have been a serious, injurious collision.
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President Trump’s recent Executive Order is injurious to our work and inimical to our values.
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The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insect species injurious to trees.
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First Known Use of injurious
15th century
INJURIOUS Defined for English Language Learners
INJURIOUS Defined for Kids
injurious
playDefinition of injurious for Students
: causing injury or harm
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injurious
playLegal Definition of injurious
: inflicting or tending to inflict injury
injuriously
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