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How to use injurious in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Injurious means causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful. Example: “This injurious explanation dethroned the remainder of Bunson's dignity entirely.”

Examples of injurious by meaning

adjectiveCausing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous, slanderous.

  • This injurious explanation dethroned the remainder of Bunson's dignity entirely.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 111

More sentences with injurious

  • Frequently the mineral composition or gas content may be injurious and money expent in pond construction wasted.1939, James Nelson Gowanloch, The Rearing of Fish in Ponds. From the entry expent
  • Clinicide can also be detected by the substantiation of injurious, unnecessary, and potentially lethal medical procedures or treatment.2010, Joshua A. Perper, Stephen J. Cina, “To Catch a Killer: Investigating Serial Murders”, in When Doctors Kill: Who, Why, and How, New…. From the entry clinicide
  • A low humidity of 35%, on the whole was highly injurious to the development and viability of cocooned larvae.1951, Ghulam-Ullah Chaudhry, The Development and Fecundity of the Oriental Fruit Moth, page 76. From the entry cocooned
  • These results are clinically relevant because the anteriorisation of posture is known to be injurious, in particular as concerns low-back pain and knee pain.2015 December 5, “Controlling Posture and Vergence Eye Movements in Quiet Stance: Effects of Thin Plantar Inserts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry anteriorisation
  • A foodie, domestic male is not a figure emasculated, but rather one of privilege, spared the humiliations and injurious defeats of machodom.2008, Ritch Calvin, Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity. From the entry machodom
  • Daily sprinkling or turning the hose on root areas can be most injurious — especially to some miffy plants like rhododendrons and dogwoods.1967, Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin, volume 55, page 42. From the entry miffy
  • Understanding hamartia as “ignorance of the injurious act,” Lacan distinguishes Greek tragedy from the Renaissance version on the basis that the latter supplants hamartia with the hero's privileged knowledge.2006, David Ratmoko, On Spectrality: Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry hamartia
  • So far as I know the ticks are not injurious or annoying, but the mites may be responsible for a mangelike condition that occurs on the chuck.1966, w.j. schoonmaker, The world of the woodchuck, page 36. From the entry mangelike
  • Experiments with veld fires in the longgrass-veld without grazing, once again revealed the undesirability of the practice of early burning and the extremely injurious effect of autumn fire.1947, Farming in South Africa - Volume 22, page 290. From the entry longgrass
  • The sanitaries of the Washington school have outlived their usefulness, the odor from them and their surroundings being very offensive, and in my opinion injurious to pupils and teachers.1904, Municipal Register of the City of Waterbury, page 34. From the entry sanitaries
  • Unless this is removed, Arsphenamine obtained from arsanilic acid will also contain o-Arsphenamine, and, since little is known of this latter substance, its presence in the drug might be injurious.1930, Archibald Edwin Goddard, “Arylarsinic Acids (Continued)”, in J[ohn Albert] Newton Friend, editor, A Text-book of Inorganic…. From the entry arsenation

Meaning of injurious

  1. adjective Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.
  2. adjective Causing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous, slanderous.

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Questions about injurious in a sentence

How do you use injurious in a sentence?
Injurious is used as an adjective. For example: “This injurious explanation dethroned the remainder of Bunson's dignity entirely.”
What is a short sentence with injurious?
“This injurious explanation dethroned the remainder of Bunson's dignity entirely.”
What does injurious mean?
Injurious means causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.

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