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Example sentences for: prejudicial
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Judges and legal scholars warned that the new rules would be intrusive and prejudicial, but Clinton signed the bill into law anyway.
New York courts ruled that such laws were prejudicial because of their disparate impact on owners of different breeds of dogs.
But to go back to the beginning, I think it is agreed that euphemism is the deliberate substitution of a socially acceptable, or “laundered” term for one that is considered taboo (for any reason at all--because it is inappropriate to a given situation, irreligious, antireligious, deprecatory, insulting, impolite, indecorous, subversive, unpatriotic, slanderous, prejudicial, and so forth).
Also it is a designation used against all Chicanos, with the same prejudicial meaning as “greaser” or “spic.”
Combined with a new, heartfelt attack on civil-rights laws (Murray says bad, prejudicial discrimination is inseparable from good, economically sensible discrimination), this passage leaves one with the sense that in declaring himself a libertarian, Murray has not yet removed the final veil.