You are seeing it in the Congress of the United States. Nasty wrangling and gridlock, far from the national interest.
Baleful and baneful overlap in meaning, but baleful usually applies to something that is menacing or foreshadows evil: a baleful look. Baneful most often describes that which is actually harmful or destructive: baneful effects of their foreign policy.
George Washington in his Farewell Address
Arsenic is baneful because it doesnt have a place in the human body!
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You could be banished for asking questions like that! "I banish you to Australia!", said the magistrate to the convicted murderer. "Please don't banish me from the playground", pleaded the boy.
President George Washington.
Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project., Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state., Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
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not actually a word but "toxical" Or it could be "envenom," a verb meaning to poison. Or maybe "arsenic" or "cyanide" which are poisons. or baneful, corrupt, hurtful, nocuous, noisome, peccant, and vicious
current has five effects. 1. physical effects 2. xray effects 3. heating effects 4. chemical effects 5.magnetic effects.
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