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causing or capable of causing harm
- Environmentalists fear the development will have a baneful effect on wildlife.
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pernicious, baneful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental mean exceedingly harmful. pernicious implies irreparable harm done through evil or insidious corrupting or undermining.
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- the claim that pornography has a pernicious effect on society
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- the baneful notion that discipline destroys creativity
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- noxious chemical fumes
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- a diet found to have deleterious effects
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- the detrimental effects of excessive drinking
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