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prejudicial

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[ UK /pɹˌɛd‍ʒuːdˈɪʃə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌpɹɛdʒəˈdɪʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
    damaging to career and reputation
    the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant
  2. tending to favor preconceived ideas
    the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population

How To Use prejudicial In A Sentence

  • As the paragraph was extremely prejudicial, the appellants should have had the opportunity of replying to it.
  • The reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant.
  • In any event I think it plain that he did have a prejudicial interest and that neither he nor the council could reasonably have taken a different view.
  • The druggist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrancois, "Leave him alone! leave him alone! Madame Bovary
  • Then a man could study its customs with undivided soul; but being so very near next door, he goes about the land with one eye on the smoke of the flesh-pots of the old country across the seas, while with the other he squints biliously and prejudicially at the alien. American Notes
  • His actions have been at best unwise and are potentially seriously prejudicial. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is all this evidence which can be brought out from her which is highly prejudicial to you, but you take those chances.
  • He was also charged with acting in a manner prejudicial to the integrity, proper conduct or good reputation of racing. Times, Sunday Times
  • The druggist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte’s convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrancois, Madame Bovary
  • 'You are apprehensive, then, of some dissimilitude of character prejudicial to our future happiness?' Camilla
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