Synonyms for damaging
ˈdæm ɪ dʒɪŋdam·ag·ing

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1. damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudiciousadjective

   (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

   "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"

   Synonyms:
   negative, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious

   Antonyms:
   harmless, constructive

2. damaging, negativeadjective

   designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

   "negative criticism"

   Synonyms:
   prejudicious, negative, negatively charged, detrimental, minus, electronegative, prejudicial, disconfirming

   Antonyms:
   constructive, harmless

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1. List of paraphrases for "damaging":

   harmful, detrimental, injurious, prejudicial, adverse, destructive, devastating, pernicious, harming, negative, deleterious, damaged, noxious, disastrous

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1. Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

   We have to hold Big Tech companies accountable for pushing addictive platforms on our kids and exposing them to a world of inappropriate, damaging content, these actions are a long time coming. We have watched over the past decade as one social media company after another has exploited our kids for profit and escaped government oversight.

2. Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams:

   There are people that their only reason for being here is disruption, disorder, chaos, hurting people and damaging property, those are the only people at this point that are giving us any kind of trouble at all.

3. Bill Bunting:

   We are concerned about strong tornadoes and widespread damaging winds, we’ve been trying to stress, don’t wait until you see visual cues of the storm approaching, take action when warnings are issued.

4. Hayden Manning:

   Morrison has to stay on message, he can ill afford to be forced on the defensive on issues like this that are potentially very damaging.

5. Ian Duncan Smith:

   And that unfairness is damaging to the government, it's damaging to the party and it's actually damaging to the country.