Baneful

Yesterday, Agricola made me read an article in a newspaper, in which violent blame and bitter irony are by turns employed, to attack what they call the baneful tendencies of some of the lower orders, to improve themselves, to write, to read the poets, and sometimes to make verses. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)

That man Clarke has some kind of baneful influence over her. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

Many of the founders welcomed the economic crisis because it would force Americans to abandon the luxuries that Thomas Jefferson called a “more baneful evil than toryism was during the war.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

My upbringing instilled in me all-pervasive fear — the sense that most everything in life (especially pleasure and taking chances) was baneful; that good existed only in the afterlife; that people, places, and things were never to be trusted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“George Washington detested the ‘baneful effects’ of parties, and spent considerable time warning against a mentality that placed party over nation, even then.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ma Zhaoxu, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in a separate statement: We demand the U.S. side seriously consider China's stance, immediately adopt measures to wipe out the baneful impact, stop interfering in China's internal affairs and cease to connive and support anti-China separatist forces that seek 'Tibetan independence.' ❋ Jeremy Page (2011)

It would facilitate and foster the baneful practice of secessions... a practice which leads more directly to public convulsions, and the ruin of popular governments, than any other which has yet been displayed among us. ❋ Edwin Eisendrath (2011)

Yes it would be a baneful herald of the apocalypse for children to read the dictionary of all things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When looking at the nation's debt, the situation is even more baneful. ❋ Michael Pento (2011)

Such vilification exhumes the baneful and destructive pattern from our nation's past when the disenchanted seek scapegoats and turn their frustration into pernicious demonization. ❋ Bradford Kane (2010)

While there are some things about the "postmodern" critique of culture with which I agree, one of its most baneful conseqeunces is the way in which it has swept up what was postmodern fiction into its smothering arms and blocked our view of what this fiction is really like. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It looks like intolerance is the new trend, and a more baneful trend for the world's future can hardly be imagined. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was left to fight alone on issues that are nearly as baneful today as segregation was in our parents 'time: climate change, and an unfair economy leaving millions without work and their children hungry and without medical care. ❋ Unknown (2010)