Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a detrimental manner; injuriously.
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- adverb In a
detrimental manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a detrimental manner
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Examples
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Sixty-one of survey respondents reported that their investigations were "detrimentally" affected because data were not retained long enough, and 47 percent said they had to end an investigation because data were not retained.
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Sixty-one of survey respondents reported that their investigations were "detrimentally" affected because data were not retained long enough, and 47 percent said they had to end an investigation because data were not retained.
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Sixty-one of survey respondents reported that their investigations were "detrimentally" affected because data were not retained long enough, and 47 percent said they had to end an investigation because data were not retained.
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Sixty-one of survey respondents reported that their investigations were "detrimentally" affected because data were not retained long enough, and 47 percent said they had to end an investigation because data were not retained.
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Now BT cant use the BS excuse given to old skool P2P downloaders that the bandwidth they are using is "detrimentally" affecting others.
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All the US has to do is look to the decade-long British experience; discipline, “unit cohesion” and effectiveness has not been detrimentally impacted at all!
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The British military were then polled and surveyed two years later and there was no endemic opposition to gays and unit cohesion or military effectiveness was not detrimentally affected.
Think Progress » McCain On DADT: ‘I Will Be Glad To Listen To The Views Of Military Leaders’ 2010
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Many young children living in such environments are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition and poor health, all of which detrimentally affect their cognitive, motor, and social-emotional development.
Soiya Gecaga: Being the Change That I Wish To See In the World Soiya Gecaga 2012
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This experience affected the whole family detrimentally.
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Always it was, 'this is not as serious a problem as they suggest' and 'this will detrimentally affect your medicare', and repeatedly 'this stuff about Govmint mandates frankly scares me'.
Saxby Chambliss - Health Care Reform - part 1 (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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