How to Use deleterious in a Sentence

deleterious

adjective

• The drug has no deleterious effects on patients.
• The chemical is deleterious to the environment.
• But the bell tolled for chalkboards with the advent of whiteboards, which addressed concerns over the deleterious effects of chalk dust for human lungs, computers, and general classroom cleanliness.
  — Staff, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2024
• For more than a year and a half, we've been told that the worries of adults have changed the lives of kids in all sorts of deleterious ways.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2021
• As in Britain, the mere threat of such lawsuits is having a deleterious effect in the U.S.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2021
• In this case, the stimulus is real, as are the deleterious effects of stress on the body.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2017
• Books will even be pulled off the shelf because they’re judged to be deleterious to public morals.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2016
• All this killing and death and, yes, remorse has had a deleterious impact on my sleep.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Sports is the great connector, and in its absence, the effects have been deleterious.
  — Matt Giles, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Among advanced countries, the EU engaged in the most deleterious of such policies.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• This is how a taboo breaks down, with deleterious effects on due process for victims of rape and abuse, both in court and in everyday snap judgments.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
• The salt is having a more deleterious impact, the scientists say.
  — Jane Perlez, New York Times, 28 May 2016
• Lack of sleep can be deleterious to our health and even be dangerous in some circumstances.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• But the rise of benzos has also had deleterious effects in a country that is still in the grips of a deadly opioid epidemic.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022
• This will have a deleterious effect on the bank’s future cross-selling and up-selling success.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Many of them were actually health care providers who felt that the risk of Covid on their pregnancy was far greater than the risk of the vaccine giving a deleterious effect.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
• What Trump is doing is far more deleterious to democracy than what McAuliffe said.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• But a number of studies from around the world have shown that even lower levels can have major deleterious effects on brain function.
  — Noah Smith, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
• The result of the divestment from DEI will have deleterious effects on racial diversity in the workplace.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Now, some will point out that because of how quickly it was developed, there is no way to definitively prove that the vaccine will have no deleterious effects down the line.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 10 Dec. 2020
• Most of us have heard of Lyme disease but know little of the disease or its potential deleterious effects.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2023
• That words cause stress, and stress prolonged over time causes trauma, and that has deleterious physical effects on us.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2023
• The deleterious real-world impact of the decision on the diagnostics industry is far worse than the flaws in the Supreme Court’s analysis.
  — Paul R. Michel, STAT, 8 Feb. 2022
• The deleterious effect of Huawei and Honor’s separation last year is clear.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• As the storm comes ashore in extreme southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi coast, its most deleterious effects should be near and to the east of the center, where by far the strongest winds are.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2017
• On top of these changes to our natural environment, and arguably more deleterious, are changes to our social norms.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• Language that recognizes the deleterious effects of weight bias and stigma - including the bias of healthcare providers - is present throughout the report.
  — Virgie Tovar, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• But in a cash-dependent country like India, the dearth of currency notes proved deleterious, resulting in long lines at bank branches and ATMs, and even some deaths.
  — Nupur Anand, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2019
• At first, the focus was on the illness’ effects on the lungs; understanding the deleterious impact on other organs came later.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• Bridges was researching the potential causes of her son’s condition when a college friend, the wife of Kennedy’s brother Max, mentioned that her brother-in-law was interested in looking at the deleterious effects of mercury.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024