poisonous

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1. poisonous - Adjective

2. poisonous - Adjective Satellite

Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

vicious venomous toxicant deathly mean bad dangerous evil hostile fatal bitter harmful damaging poison destructive

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white beneficent good bactericidal therapeutical medical

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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Friedrich Nietzsche

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Eric Hoffer

The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting. Vietnamese Proverb

An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope. Hindi Proverb

Harsh words hurt more than a poisonous arrow. Nilotic Proverb