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单词 injurious
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Definition of injurious in English:

injurious

adjective ɪnˈdʒʊərɪəsɪnˈdʒʊriəs
  • 1Causing or likely to cause damage or harm.

    有害的,致害的

    food which is injurious to health

    对健康有害的食物。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For instance, they demanded that employers had to insure them work, that they would not do anything injurious to the workers and finally, that employers would permit workers their right to enter a guild.
    • For a publication to be objectionable, it must deal with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of a publication is likely to be injurious to the public good.
    • There must be recognition that these chemicals were injurious to health.
    • Thomas Jefferson had one answer to this question, that the authority of government extends only to those actions that are injurious to others or deprive them of their equal rights.
    • Nothing is more injurious to some people's careers than early fame, and while I would have been happy to take it, I never had to worry about what corrosive effect early fame was having on my work.
    • These devices are substantially attracted to the static magnetic field of magnetic resonance systems and, therefore, may be uncomfortable or injurious to a patient undergoing an MRI procedure.
    • A publication may be age restricted if it is likely to be injurious to the public good.
    • Once we began to study it, we found it was so injurious to your health that it was shocking.
    • Bonding social capital within specific communities is seen as injurious to development as a whole, and therefore needs to be discouraged.
    • This is damaging to all women but particularly injurious to the Lesbian community.
    • Smoking is injurious to health but passive smoking can be more harmful.
    • A number of weapons have been expressly forbidden for any use in warfare on the grounds that they are deemed to be excessively injurious to the immediate victims or have potentially harmful effects for others.
    • He said that although this amount represented only a small portion of the total bribes, he was warned by some veteran officials that his practice may be injurious to his relations with fellow officials.
    • The development would be seriously injurious to the character of the adjoining village and the visual amenities of the area generally.
    • In spite of sufficient knowledge that tobacco consumption is injurious to health, the paradox is that tobacco intake is promoted by one section of society even as another section fights to curtail its consumption.
    • For this reason, surgeries in which there is less scarring because the incisions are ‘hidden’ on the areola are usually more injurious to lactation than those in which there is extensive scarring.
    • It has been shown that repetitive alveolar collapse and reopening can be injurious to the lung.
    • I ask that we do something about it because I think it's thoroughly injurious to what we are genuinely about - which is equality of opportunity.
    • They lie to conceal actions taken to achieve covert policies injurious to the general good of the public.
    • Such chemicals are highly toxic and injurious to humans, says Cuts, a safety watch group, in its new publication ‘Is It Really Safe?’
    Synonyms
    harmful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, dangerous
    disadvantageous, unfavourable, undesirable, adverse, inimical, unhealthy, unwholesome, environmentally unfriendly, destructive, pernicious, malignant
    literary malefic, maleficent
    1. 1.1 (of language) maliciously insulting; libellous.
      (语言)伤人的;中伤的;诽谤的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The same applies to trade libels, injurious falsehood and similar claims.
      • Common law provides a remedy for injurious falsehoods, actions that are sometimes known as business disparagement lawsuits.
      • He subsequently commenced an action against the defendant alleging injurious falsehood and intentional interference with economic relations.
      • Putting it another way, in such circumstances the defamer cannot be said to be ‘telling deliberate and injurious falsehoods’.
      • The title of the cause of actions in the 2004 claim has been changed to injurious falsehood and inducing breach of contract.
      • The alleged torts of injurious falsehood, unlawful interference with economic relations, and negligence would have been committed in New York and the law of New York would apply to those causes of action.
      • He claimed that the letters from the defendants were defamatory, malicious and injurious as they were calculated to damage the name, political standing and reputation.
      Synonyms
      libellous, slanderous, defaming, calumnious, calumniatory, vilifying, traducing, scandalous, scandalmongering, malicious, vicious, backbiting, muckraking, abusive, maledictory, maledictive

Derivatives

  • injuriously

  • adverb
    • These two fables are a warning to us not to deal hardly or injuriously by somebody who can defend himself by dealing hardly or injuriously with us.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Let us assume for the purposes of debate that the case is one where, if a stay does not go, the subject matter of the litigation will be so injuriously affected as to amount effectively to its destruction.
      • In the event that you agree your client's land has not been injuriously affected other than in respect of any settlement damage then I would be grateful if you could also confirm this by return.
      • It is not necessary, in my judgment, to prove that every member of the class has been injuriously affected; it is sufficient to show that a representative cross-section of the class has so been affected for an injunction to issue.
      • ‘The important thing is that we recognise that work can be stressful, but should not be injuriously so,’ he said.
  • injuriousness

  • noun
    • If you've been following the discussion re paraglider and hang glider accident rates and injuriousness, you'll see that we've been discussing the rates for medical emergency insurance (especially travel insurance).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I have published a few articles now on the question of the relative rates of injuriousness between hang gliding and paragliding.
      • The first four poems repeat ideas from the second section, which compared rocks with sins, such as the shame, impudency and injuriousness shared by rocks and sinners.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French injurieux or Latin injuriosus, from injuria 'a wrong' (see injury).

Rhymes

curious, furious, luxurious, penurious, perjurious, spurious, sulphureous (US sulfureous), usurious

Definition of injurious in US English:

injurious

adjectiveinˈjo͝orēəsɪnˈdʒʊriəs
  • 1Causing or likely to cause damage or harm.

    有害的,致害的

    high temperature is injurious to mangoes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For this reason, surgeries in which there is less scarring because the incisions are ‘hidden’ on the areola are usually more injurious to lactation than those in which there is extensive scarring.
    • For a publication to be objectionable, it must deal with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of a publication is likely to be injurious to the public good.
    • He said that although this amount represented only a small portion of the total bribes, he was warned by some veteran officials that his practice may be injurious to his relations with fellow officials.
    • For instance, they demanded that employers had to insure them work, that they would not do anything injurious to the workers and finally, that employers would permit workers their right to enter a guild.
    • Thomas Jefferson had one answer to this question, that the authority of government extends only to those actions that are injurious to others or deprive them of their equal rights.
    • Smoking is injurious to health but passive smoking can be more harmful.
    • This is damaging to all women but particularly injurious to the Lesbian community.
    • They lie to conceal actions taken to achieve covert policies injurious to the general good of the public.
    • A publication may be age restricted if it is likely to be injurious to the public good.
    • These devices are substantially attracted to the static magnetic field of magnetic resonance systems and, therefore, may be uncomfortable or injurious to a patient undergoing an MRI procedure.
    • I ask that we do something about it because I think it's thoroughly injurious to what we are genuinely about - which is equality of opportunity.
    • The development would be seriously injurious to the character of the adjoining village and the visual amenities of the area generally.
    • Nothing is more injurious to some people's careers than early fame, and while I would have been happy to take it, I never had to worry about what corrosive effect early fame was having on my work.
    • A number of weapons have been expressly forbidden for any use in warfare on the grounds that they are deemed to be excessively injurious to the immediate victims or have potentially harmful effects for others.
    • Once we began to study it, we found it was so injurious to your health that it was shocking.
    • Bonding social capital within specific communities is seen as injurious to development as a whole, and therefore needs to be discouraged.
    • Such chemicals are highly toxic and injurious to humans, says Cuts, a safety watch group, in its new publication ‘Is It Really Safe?’
    • There must be recognition that these chemicals were injurious to health.
    • In spite of sufficient knowledge that tobacco consumption is injurious to health, the paradox is that tobacco intake is promoted by one section of society even as another section fights to curtail its consumption.
    • It has been shown that repetitive alveolar collapse and reopening can be injurious to the lung.
    Synonyms
    harmful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, dangerous
    1. 1.1 (of language) maliciously insulting; libelous.
      (语言)伤人的;中伤的;诽谤的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The alleged torts of injurious falsehood, unlawful interference with economic relations, and negligence would have been committed in New York and the law of New York would apply to those causes of action.
      • The title of the cause of actions in the 2004 claim has been changed to injurious falsehood and inducing breach of contract.
      • Common law provides a remedy for injurious falsehoods, actions that are sometimes known as business disparagement lawsuits.
      • He claimed that the letters from the defendants were defamatory, malicious and injurious as they were calculated to damage the name, political standing and reputation.
      • The same applies to trade libels, injurious falsehood and similar claims.
      • Putting it another way, in such circumstances the defamer cannot be said to be ‘telling deliberate and injurious falsehoods’.
      • He subsequently commenced an action against the defendant alleging injurious falsehood and intentional interference with economic relations.
      Synonyms
      libellous, slanderous, defaming, calumnious, calumniatory, vilifying, traducing, scandalous, scandalmongering, malicious, vicious, backbiting, muckraking, abusive, maledictory, maledictive

Origin

Late Middle English: from French injurieux or Latin injuriosus, from injuria ‘a wrong’ (see injury).

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