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does more harm than good

does more harm than good is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do more harm than good.

Meaning of do more harm than good

Verb

do more harm than good (third-person singular simple present does more harm than good, present participle doing more harm than good, simple past did more harm than good, past participle done more harm than good)

  1. To make a situation worse, usually while trying to make it better.
    • Finally, it appears that Pius was asked by some persecuted Jews to avoid an explicit condemnation because it would do more harm than good2002, José M. Sánchez, Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy, page 117

Questions about does more harm than good

What is does more harm than good the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Does more harm than good is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do more harm than good.

Words near does more harm than good in the dictionary

  1. does it tough
  2. does it up brown
  3. does justice
  4. does lunch
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  6. does more harm than good
  7. does not compute
  8. does nothing
  9. does numbers
  10. does off
  11. does one's bit

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