deleterious

IPA: dɛɫʌtˈɪriʌs

adjective

  • Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way.
  • (genetics) Having lower fitness.
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Examples of "deleterious" in Sentences

  • Edit warring is deleterious to the mission.
  • Not so the deleterious effect on production rates.
  • I mean, the feature itself isn't unwise or deleterious.
  • In essence, sex compartmentalises the deleterious mutations.
  • The effects of traumatic insemination are deleterious to the female.
  • This phenomenon masks the deleterious effect of the insertion mutation.
  • Edit warring is deleterious to the mission and orderliness of Wikipedia.
  • Carbonates are deleterious as they readily stick to the boiler apparatus.
  • A method of decreasing the deleterious effects of cavitation on a ship 1.
  • Vitamin supplements counter the deleterious effects of homocysteine on collagen.

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