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Synonyms & Antonyms of prejudicial
1
causing or capable of causing harm
- pretrial publicity that may be extremely prejudicial to a defendant's right to a fair trial
Synonyms for prejudicial
- adverse,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- damaging,
- dangerous,
- deleterious,
- detrimental,
- evil,
- harmful,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- injurious,
- mischievous,
- nocuous,
- noxious,
- pernicious,
- wicked
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2
opposed to one's interests
- the defense will try to counterbalance the mass of prejudicial evidence presented by the prosecution
Synonyms for prejudicial
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- damaging,
- deleterious,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- fatal,
- harmful,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- injurious,
- lethal,
- malignant,
- murderous,
- noxious,
- pernicious,
- poisonous,
- ruinous,
- threatening,
- troublesome,
- unhealthy,
- wounding
- dangerous,
- hazardous,
- imperiling
- (or imperilling),
- jeopardizing,
- parlous,
- perilous,
- risky,
- unsafe
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