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adjective

Prejudicial adj.

Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. (Obs.)

Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. "His going away... was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prejudicial" Quotes from Famous Books

... the false deceitful heart is so much inclined thereto; and that this deceit can sometime work so cunningly, that it can hardly be discerned, being covered over with many false glosses and pretexts; and that it is so dishonourable to Jesus, and hurtful and prejudicial to ...

— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)

... go to bed. She knew that her fate was being discussed, and she knew that her aunt at that very time was using every argument in her power to ruin her. She felt, moreover, that the story might be told in such a way as to be terribly prejudicial to her. And now, when his father was so ill, might it not be very natural that he should do almost anything to lessen his mother's troubles? But to her it would be absolute ruin; such ruin that nothing which she had yet endured would ...

— Miss Mackenzie • Anthony Trollope

... Constable, merely for the selfish purposes,—first, of facilitating the immediate discount of bills;—secondly, of further perplexing Scott's affairs, the entire disentanglement of which would have been, as he fancied, prejudicial ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) • John Gibson Lockhart

... granted to any city or community prejudicial to the rights of the electors are revoked. All fraudulent resignations of fiefs by vassals, with intent to attack their lords, are declared void. All leagues, associations, and confederacies, not sanctioned by law, are made punishable ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... evade the law which have been detected by the vigilance of the appraisers leave no room to doubt that similar impositions not discovered, to a large amount, have been successfully practiced since the enactment of the law now in force. This state of things has already had a prejudicial influence upon those engaged in foreign commerce. It has a tendency to drive the honest trader from the business of importing and to throw that important branch of employment into the hands of unscrupulous and dishonest men, who are alike ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Millard Fillmore • Millard Fillmore

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