Prejudicial definition

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Causing or tending to cause harm, especially to a legal case.

A prejudicial error.

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Showing or full of prejudice; biased.

A prejudicial opinion.

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Causing prejudice, or harm; injurious; detrimental.
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The definition of prejudicial is something that causes harm or damage, or is detrimental.

When a person is on trial for a crime, information indicating that he has previously committed similar crimes is an example of prejudicial information.

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Exhibiting prejudice or bias.
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Prejudicial Sentence Examples

  • I fear that the incident must have a very prejudicial effect upon his career.

  • Regular industrial work is however handicapped by competition with the tourist trade in its several branches - acting as guides and camp servants, manufacture and sale of " souvenirs ' (carved toys and trinklets in mother - of-pearl and olive-wood, forged antiquities and the like), and the analogous trade in objets de piete (rosaries, crosses, crude religious pictures, &c.) for pilgrims. Travellers in the country squander their money recklessly, and these trades, at once easy and lucrative, are thus fatally attractive to the indolent Syrian and prejudicial to the best interests of the country.

  • Resistances are distinguished into useful and prejudicial, according as they arise from the useful effect produced by the machine or from other causes.

  • His hostility towards Great Britain and even Cape Colony led him to adopt a commercial policy both narrow and prejudicial to the interests of the gold industry.

  • For the Hexaplar text which he thus produced not only effaced many of the most characteristic features of the old version, but also exercised a prejudicial influence on the MSS.

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