It is easier to work with because it does not produce injurious splinters.
These multiple infections seem to be especially injurious.
We have many times called attention to instances of the injurious effects on climate of the wholesale cutting down of forests.
The patient must have directly experienced, witnessed, or learned of a life-threatening or seriously injurious event.
He who conceals an useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of the injurious falsehood.
It is not true that speculations upon these things have ever done harm or become injurious to the body politic.
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority.
Now it is a wholly different thing to be truthful from duty, and to be so from apprehension of injurious consequences.
The intervention of performers introduces a complication of economic conditions which is in itself likely to be injurious.
The effect would be demoralizing to the troops and injurious to their health.
British Dictionary definitions for injurious
injurious
/ɪnˈdʒʊərɪəs/
adjective
1.
causing damage or harm; deleterious; hurtful
2.
abusive, slanderous, or libellous
Derived Forms
injuriously, adverb injuriousness, noun
Word Origin and History for injurious
adj.
early 15c., "abusive," from Middle French injurios (14c., Modern French injurieux) and directly from Latin injuriosus "unlawful, wrongful, harmful, noxious," from injuria (see injury). Related: Injuriously.