What is "detriments"

Usage examples of "detriments".

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.

Even in their own ranks, the Reinis see members they consider weaklings, detriments to their plans whom they nonetheless cannot easily be rid of—these men have done too much for the party over the years.

Jones alleged that she suffered various job detriments after refusing Governor Clinton's advances.