banefulness

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He proclaimed that they were jealous of his profounder learning, and threatened to expose the banefulness of their systems.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)

Who this soft nonsense could impart, Imprudent prattle of the heart, Attractive in its banefulness?

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

But somehow the bad men seemed unable to transplant to this new and richer soil the banefulness that had thrived so successfully in the land of sage-brush and cactus.

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson