A damage or loss

Usage examples of detriment.

Nor was there ever any thing of such detriment to antient history, as the supposing that the Gods of the Gentile world had been natives of the countries, where they were worshipped.

Cincinnatus at length having prayed to the immortal gods, that his old age might not prove a detriment or disgrace to the republic at so dangerous a juncture, is appointed dictator by the consul: he himself then appoints Caius Servilius Ahala his master of the horse.

Writers, intellectuals and students were exhorted to speak their minds even to the detriment of the authorities.

A thousand acres could be cut over each year without detriment to the forest, and if sent in this way to Limoges, would find a ready market for building purposes.

If it is not done, hot bile will toxify within her organs and fill her body entirely, to her certain detriment!

They acted as they existed through State as they had previously acted through colonial organization, for in throwing off the British authority there was no other organization through which they could act. The States, or people of the States, severally sent their delegates to the Congress of the United States, and these delegates adopted the rule of voting in Congress by States, a rule that might be revived without detriment to national unity.

United States with the British Provinces--rendering them in many respects but one country--and of the magnitude of the commercial relations existing between them, it would be impolitic and to the detriment of the interests of the United States to decline the consideration of all propositions looking to the reestablishment of some future and satisfactory international commercial arrangement.

The Bhutanese have resisted progress, but not to the detriment of their resident million or so inhabitants.

Were you concerned his activities, whatever they were, would rebound to the detriment of your people?

In any case, John, you habitually give the key idea of a story in the blurbs-sometimes, I think, to the detriment of the dramatic punch of a story.

For each of them he found an appropriate rationalization, giving them to understand that such activity was not in the least to the detriment of the collective's aims or their customers' requirements, but on the contrary corresponded to the legitimate desires of their sister collectives and was even a valuable contribution to Soviet life and culture.

When the pasture lands adjoining the university were sold off one by one for apartment complexes and gas stations, most of the large old houses were torn down as detriments to the land value, or perhaps because they clashed with the current ambience of neon and asphalt.

I did get taken out for an expensive lunch not long after that fatil phone call, and I was invited by a lady whose brains and beauty far exceeded the modest attainments in either of those detriments by Bambi Etheridge.

Although Pete realized the ACIP’s benefits far outweighed its detriments, he agonized over these deaths, and suspected the true toll was many times higher.

They should be after real criminals, real threats, real detriments to society.