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Definition of Prejudicial
1. Adjective. (sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury. "The reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
2. Adjective. Tending to favor preconceived ideas. "The presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
Definition of Prejudicial
1. a. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye.
Definition of Prejudicial
1. Adjective. exhibiting prejudice or bias ¹
2. Adjective. causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prejudicial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prejudicial
Literary usage of Prejudicial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This classification, while slightly superficial, is exact, and presupposes the
fundamental malice of the crime in question, viz., that it is prejudicial to ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"Conspiracy to do Acts prejudicial to the Public Generally. The ground upon which
any act is punished as a crime is because it injures, or tends to injure, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"This was highly prejudicial to the rights of the accused, and a new trial should
for this reason be granted. (23 Ga. App. 422) KENNEDY v. McCOOK. (No. 9728. ..."
4. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"LICENSE TO PURSUE A BUSINESS prejudicial TO SAFETY OR MORALS. §§ 562-564. S 562.
Statement of principle.—It has been shown before that the establishment or ..."
5. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"LICENSE TO PURSUE A BUSINESS prejudicial TO SAFETY OR MORALS. !§ 562-564. § 562.
Statement of principle.—It has been shown before that the establishment or ..."
6. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1863)
"In that case, President Washington deemed it to be a violation of an important
principle, the establishment of a " dangerous precedent," and prejudicial to ..."
7. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Continued to the Present Time by Richard Burn (1797)
"It may be prejudicial to the commoner, yet not injurious ; it may be both
prejudicial and injurious, ..."
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