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prejudicial

[ prej-uh-dish-uhl ]

adjective

  1. causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.


prejudicial

/ ˌprɛdʒʊˈdɪʃəl /

adjective

  1. causing prejudice; detrimental or damaging


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Derived Forms

  • ˌprejuˈdicially, adverb

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Other Words From

  • preju·dicial·ly adverb
  • preju·dicial·ness noun
  • nonprej·u·dicial adjective
  • nonprej·u·dicial·ly adverb
  • unprej·u·dicial adjective
  • unprej·u·dicial·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of prejudicial1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Late Latin praejūdiciālis; prejudice, -al 1

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Example Sentences

That assertion, given by Shore in a pre-trial deposition, would have been too prejudicial to present to the jury, the court ruled.

However, to use the phrase “switched off” in relation to the transponder and the ACARS was in itself prejudicial.

"Positive individual income shocks produce changes in lifestyles which may well be prejudicial to health," the report reads.

Every important perspective on this issue is opposed to justice being hobbled by “unwritten laws” of prejudicial entitlement.

Moreover, it must be prejudicial to the national interest to impose parliamentary taxes.

It is not only in the mining part of the business that the want of skill is prejudicial to the result.

It also greatly disturbed the internal unity of the Church, and that in a manner peculiarly prejudicial to its well-being.

Open heresy could not be permitted, nor any worship that was adjudged to be distinctly prejudicial to the interests of the State.

This restricted trading was not prejudicial to the town because practically all the burgesses were members of the Gild.

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