Sentence example with the word 'baneful'

baneful

apocalyptic, cataclysmic, deathful, disadvantageous, fratricidal, ill-fated, malignant, pestilential, sinister, unpromising, virulent

Definition adj. exceedingly harmful

Last update: June 23, 2015


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Separated in early years from her parents and sister, her one great friendship had proved only baneful and ensnaring.   [adjective]

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He made some commonplace observation upon the baneful effect of the night air at the season.   [adjective]

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He was perhaps wanting in firmness of character, and the undue influence exercised over him by unscrupulous ministers, or by the seductions of fairer but no less ambitious votaries of statecraft, led him to make concessions which tarnished the glory of his reign, and were followed by baneful results for the welfare of his empire.   [adjective]

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A baneful political heritage has been handed down to us from the Civil War--the solid South.   [Please select]

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The impudent spirit of young America has not yet exerted its baneful influence here.   [Please select]

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The consequences to society are also of the most baneful nature.   [Please select]

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It must be that Curtis has exerted a baneful influence upon him.   [Please select]

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Or have you, under the baneful influence of contending factions, forgot your country.   [Please select]

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It departs as suddenly as it came, carrying its baneful influence to lands farther south.   [Please select]

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It only remains to find my godfather, that he may make me less baneful to others by taking away the power I abuse.   [Please select]

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She was about to separate him from the baneful and pernicious life of the camps--to tender him a gift of unutterable happiness--to give all of him back to the work of the great railroad.   [Please select]

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