1. baneful - Adjective
2. baneful - Adjective Satellite
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid. Herman Melville
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow. Francis Parkman
Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons. Abigail Adams
He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears. Bram Stoker
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? Zebulon Pike
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. George Washington