baneful

Washington opposed the “baneful effects” of party politics and so knew that his farewell had to unite the nation, had to appeal to a consensus shared equally among artists and bankers, farmers and tradesfolk, soldiers and schoolteachers, even pastors and prisoners.

He set out to shame that baneful narrative.

“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.”

The impact these soldiers had on the South was baneful.

Yet Maskull soon begins to question these received dogmas: What if the world he travels through is really a baneful, sensual illusion, a pretty toy created by Crystalman to beguile us, while Surtur’s mystical realm — called Muspel — is our soul’s true home?