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n. - Destructiveness that causes harm.

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Usage examples (22)
  • The Tzar lent an attentive ear to those zealous governors and governors-general, who in their "most humble reports" propounded the new-fangled theory of the...
  • The injuriousness of fogs and low temperatures will be presently dwelt upon at greater length.
  • It is time that parents and physicians learn that the injuriousness of the habit has been greatly, grossly exaggerated.
  • The ancient idea of the injuriousness of the relations during menstruation and the disastrous results likely to follow them have only a very slender foundation.
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