Injurious definition

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Injuring or likely to cause injury; harmful.
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Offensive or abusive; slanderous or libelous.
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Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful.

Eating habits that are injurious to one's health.

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Offensive or insulting; hurtful.

Made injurious statements about his rival.

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The definition of injurious is something that could cause harm to a person or their reputation, or that is offensive or abusive.

When you make false accusations that someone is a thief and damage his reputation, this is an example of injurious remarks.

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Offensive or insulting; hurtful.

Made injurious statements about their rivals.

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Causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious.
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Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful.

Eating habits that are injurious to one's health.

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Origin of injurious

Injurious Sentence Examples

  • Bourne (24), the poison exuded by the sting has no injurious effect on another scorpion nor on the scorpion itself.

  • In return for these privileges the lord was liable to forfeit his rights if he neglected to protect and defend the tenant or did anything injurious to the feudal relation.

  • The native methods in vogue in Brazil and Mexico are primitive and often injurious to the tree.

  • It soon became evident, however, that the Porte was endeavouring to obstruct the execution of the new reforms. Several months passed without any step being taken towards this realization; difficulties were raised with regard to the composition of the international commissions charged with the reorganization of the gendarmery and judicial system; intrigues were set on foot against the Christian governorgeneral; and the presence of a special imperial commissioner, who had no place under the constitution, proved so injurious to the restoration of tranquillity that the powers demanded his immediate recall.

  • Among the early writings, besides the book of Curtis, there may also be mentioned a still useful little publication by Pohl and Kollar, entitled Insects Injurious to Gardeners, Foresters and Farmers, published in 1837, and Taschenberg's Praktische Insecktenkunde.

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