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UK
/pɹˌɛdʒuːdˈɪʃəl/
]
[ US /ˌpɹɛdʒəˈdɪʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌpɹɛdʒəˈdɪʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
damaging to career and reputation
the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant -
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