Example sentences for: prejudicial

How can you use “prejudicial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.


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