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But it is indeed in Uttar Pradesh that we see the deepest sympathy for this  deleterious machismo.

Drugs are becoming more powerful with prescription painkillers used to enhance effect and prolong a deleterious pleasure.

But consider: inhaling one leaf has had the largest deleterious impact on human health of any single product in human history.

But the truth is that they have real and deleterious effects on conservative politics.

Perhaps the noise raised by those who oppose labels will prove to be more deleterious than the labels themselves.

Opium-smoking is a vice not only deleterious in itself, but one indulged in merely to satisfy a morbid craving.

It is evident that some cases are completely cured and that no deleterious influence remains.

Freedom from the deleterious action or habit-forming tendencies of the opiates.

The easier an act is, the more readily, if it is deleterious, will popular sentiment build a protective wall around it.

Tobacco smoke is more deleterious than ale, teetotaller; bile more potent than brandy.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deleterious, such as: bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, and injurious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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