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Damaging   /dˈæmɪdʒɪŋ/   Listen
Damaging

adjective
1.
(sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury.  Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious.  "The reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
2.
Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.  Synonym: negative.


Damage

verb
(past & past part. damaged; pres. part. damaging)
1.
Inflict damage upon.  "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
2.
Suffer or be susceptible to damage.



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"Damaging" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite so easy if she had known that Mrs. Sefton intended to send a little note to Hatty as well. It was only a kindly worded note, full of sympathy for Hatty's little ailments, such as any friendly stranger might write; but the closing sentence was terribly damaging to ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... must hope, for the children's sake, produced a satisfactory effect; for surely nothing can be more injurious to the happiness of children than to witness the ungovernable temper of their elders; but with Godwin's calm disposition, quarrels must have been one-sided, and consequently less damaging. ...
— Mrs. Shelley • Lucy M. Rossetti
... lips—giving him proof that the prospect of remaining alone in the cabin with him had not crushed her—had not brought the hysterical protests that he had feared. She was plainly pleased, possibly considering the thing an adventure which would have no damaging consequences. ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... grave-digger in his too eager realism was damaging the thing—the marks of his pick and spade are visible on the cranium—Edwin Booth presently replaced it with a papier-mache counterfeit manufactured in the property-room of the theatre. During his subsequent wanderings in Australia ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... of having a system of slavery incorporated into a republican government was always felt by good men North and South, as well as its damaging effect on the social and political well-being of the whole community; and steps had been taken both in Virginia and Kentucky to do away with it by legislative action. Whether these incipient steps would ever have ended in relieving us of the evil, can only be conjectured. We only know that a peaceable ...
— The Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873 • J.T. Headley


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