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/pɹˌɛdʒuːdˈɪʃəl/
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[ US /ˌpɹɛdʒəˈdɪʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌpɹɛdʒəˈdɪʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
damaging to career and reputation
the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant -
tending to favor preconceived ideas
the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population
How To Use prejudicial In A Sentence
- No doubt you were prepared to disclose that piece of advice because you did not think it particularly prejudicial to your client's case.
- Since the Administrator had relied on their assessments, the error was prejudicial and reversal was required.
- The rhetoric of prejudicial disdain is meted out, on the one hand against the “hoity-toity”, and on the other against the “hoi poloi” -- against the “snob” with complex tastes and the “pleb” with simple tastes. Archive 2009-06-01
- The chemist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrançois, "Leave him alone! leave him alone! Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
- And no matter that this all culminates in a media climate in which, as the Leveson inquiry heard this week, newspapers routinely engage in inaccurate, prejudicial and victim-blaming when reporting violence towards women, as evidenced by the headline in which a gang rape is called an "orgy in the park". Committee's solution to attacks on female politicians: 'just get on with it'
- The Court noted that double jeopardy is generally not implicated when a defendant obtains a verdict or chooses to prevent one by successfully seeking a mistrial, but that there is an exception to that rule that applies when a prosecutor has engaged in prejudicial misconduct deliberately intended to provoke a mistrial motion. Constitutional Issues
- The judge decided that allowing the videotape as evidence would be prejudicial to the outcome of the trial.
- Youse are prejudicial, and what's more youse are philistines. MUSIC FOR BOYS
- The Court should lean against a construction of the code that would lead to the penalisation of a member who has decided honestly and reasonably that he does not have a personal or a prejudicial interest.
- God will ultimately hold McCain accountable for his partisan and prejudicial decisions steve poppitz McCain to vote against Sotomayor
