detrimental
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adjective
adverse, afflicting, bad, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, disadvantageous, disastrous, discommodious, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, extirpative, fulsome, grievous, harmful, hindering, hurtful, ill-advised, ill-contrived, impolitic, inappropriate, inimical, iniquus, injurious, inopportune, insalubrious, insidious, internecine, malefic, malignant, noisome, noxious, oppressive, perniciosus, pernicious, pestilential, prejudicial, toxic, treacherous, undermining, unfit, unhealthy, unhelpful, unprofitable, unpropitious, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, untoward, unwholesome, unwise
associated concepts: actively detrimental, detrimental to the best interests of the child, detrimental to the public interest
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index
adverse (negative), bad (inferior), bad (offensive), destructive, disadvantageous, disastrous, harmful, insalubrious, malignant, noxious, oppressive, peccant (unhealthy), pernicious, prejudicial, sinister
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006