Definition of Baneful
baneful (adjective) - exceedingly harmful
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How can baneful be used in a sentence?
That man Clarke has some kind of baneful influence over her.
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nullNow the stone was a baneful pus-yellow color, nearly spherical.
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nullTea also reflected the baneful influence of the temperance movement.
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nullThe baneful influence of the drug lords has provided fuel to enemies of NAFTA.
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nullAny journalist worth his Kool-Aid can recite the baneful litany of President Obama's inheritances.
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nullYes it would be a baneful herald of the apocalypse for children to read the dictionary of all things.
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nullWe need decent science education in schools again, free of the baneful influence of religious followers.
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nullOf all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.
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nullBut until the baneful influence of left-wing ideology over teacher training is removed, nothing will get any better.
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nullSuch crackpottery is baneful, but it is characteristic of parties and political movements when they are out of power.
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nullEarth the grain-giver yields up to her its store of drugs, whereo many be healing, mingled in the cup, and many baneful.
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nullReading about those streets and alleys, as I readily head down the Riverwalk, the whole picture changes to a baneful scenery.
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nullAndea Yates who killed her children had the baneful influence of her minister as well as the psychiatrist brain drugging agents.
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nullFigures of those who taught the good and sanative Use of Plants; the last taught their poisonous, baneful, and diabolick Qualities.
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nullHe almost always lived up to that duty, but the one time he manifestly fell short, it ended up having great and baneful consequences.
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nullWith a bit of luck, even the dimmest of the sheeple will shrink from electing them for another term of baneful policies and baleful ideology.
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nullLet 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.
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nullBut if the Amazin's aim to turn things around in the coming decade, they must avoid repeating their two most baneful blunders from the previous one.
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nullIn the cultural sphere, this baneful development was anticipated by Mercouri's discovery of the hot-button issue that would secure her second career.
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nullI believe removing such artificial stimulus is needed so the country can immediately begin de-leveraging and to prevent the accumulation of yet more baneful debt.
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nullMillions of Americans would consider Larry Flynt the epitome of unregenerate bad taste, a redneck vulgarian whose contribution to the culture has been baneful at best.
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nullTo the north of here, the high desert is getting soaked with what ought to be Sentarshadeen's rainfall, as the clouds pile against an ethereal barrier created by baneful magic.
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nullSuch vilification exhumes the baneful and destructive pattern from our nation's past when the disenchanted seek scapegoats and turn their frustration into pernicious demonization.
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nullThe police have actually been under attack since the mid 1960's from elements that are inimical to the interests of the UK and whose baneful influence has deeply undermined the policing function.
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nullI should note that I cannot be accused of self interest in taking exception to those who lament the baneful influence of baby boomers on our current politics, having myself been born well before the boom.
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nullIt 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.
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nullMost disturbing, however, is the strong probability that neither Mr. Crovitz's synthesis nor Judge Posner's argument itself will be read or understood by enough voting Americans to significantly alter a baneful status quo.
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null'Ah, my dear Miss Camilla,' cried Edgar, with energy, 'since you feel and own ... and with you, that is always one ... this baneful deficiency, drop, or at least suspend an intercourse too hazardous to be indulged with propriety!
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nullHe 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.
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nullThat person who, without an iota of irony or self-dramatizing exaggeration (Rush Limbaugh, in that sense, is rather a kitten), really believes the nation has descended into a malignant state and can only be saved by baneful and constant censure?
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nullAgainst 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.
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nullWhile 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.
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nullYesterday, 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.
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nullThe latter demand, so entirely out of her power to grant, gave to her the mental strength she had yet sought in vain; and determining to end this baneful secret, she seized her own first moment of emotion to relate to her father the whole of her distresses, and cast herself upon his mercy.
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nullAshok Khajuria hailed the initiative of the renowned Delhi-based intellectuals, including former diplomats, senior editors, and ex-top ranking military officials, designed to neutralized the baneful influence of those in the country who have virtually joined the Kashmiri-separatists and demanded independence for Kashmir from India.
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nullMa 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.'
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nullForgive me if, like her, I suspect the motives of a government faced with the ire of bereaved parents or parents with children in the grip of autism, not mention the crippling financial penalties of class actions should they be found to have encouraged a procedure, to cut costs, that turned out to be so baneful or even fatal for children.
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Tips for Using baneful in a Sentence
You may have an easier time writing sentences with baneful if you know what words are likely to come before or after it, or simply what words are often found in the same sentence.
Frequent Predecessors
Words that often come before baneful in sentences. For example: "the baneful" or "a baneful"
- the
- a
- its
- most
- and
- their
- this
- more
- so
- that
Frequent Successors
Words that often come after baneful in sentences. For example: "baneful influence" or "baneful effects"
- influence
- effects
- effect
- to
- and
- influences
- consequences
- .
- in
- results
Associated Words
Words that aren't necessarily predecessors or successors, but are often found in the same sentence.
- influence
- effect
Alternate Definitions
- baneful (adjective) - having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious
