ADJECTIVE
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deadly or sinister
the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look - exceedingly harmful
How To Use baneful In A Sentence
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- Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. A Renegade History of the United States
- 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. The Wandering Jew — Complete
- 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. Best of 2009: Web tool and learning experience
- Flying ointment made from mugwort in a carrier oil may be safer, but it is not just as good as one made from hemlock, belladonna, and other baneful herbs carefully mixed and applied.
- In many places in Britain, it was customary to light huge bonfires in the fields to ward off baneful influences, often accompanied by much partying.
- For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.
- It was a baneful day writhing with the horrors of which nightmares are made. THE CALLIGRAPHER
- Then was the Motto of the Crown, or of the chief Ensign of Pre-eminence, _Digniori detur_, and so continued till the Degeneracy of Time, and the baneful Growth of An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland