"baleful for" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is harmful or threatening to someone or something. For example: - The baleful weather conditions were disastrous for the farmers' crops. - The baleful effects of the virus were felt throughout the entire community. - Her baleful words caused a rift in their friendship. - The company's decision to cut jobs was baleful for the employees' livelihoods.
Having been spurned in his effort to have his first play, "Tamburlaine," staged, and hungry for lusty adventure, Kit prevails upon his loyal friend for an introduction to his uncle, Sir Francis Walsingham, the baleful spymaster for the queen.
But because we've so long let cars dominate city life, we take them, and their baleful effects, for granted.
Yet there is another, less baleful explanation for the absence of African-Americans from classical music: beginning with jazz, black musicians invented their own forms of high art.
With the exacting touch and the pagan religiosity of a Pre-Raphaelite, he pictured a dead crow among dry, brown grasses, a baleful symbol for civilization at war with itself, a silent scream against the violent idiocy of man.
Not quite a portrait, although certainly a head, it takes the form of a highly stylized skull, an ovoid shape divided into three areas with a sunken nose and a baleful crater for an eye.
Until roads are rebuilt and the smashed irrigation system repaired, Afghan farmers have no real option but to grow opium, with baleful consequences for both internal politics and the outside world.As in Iraq, however, money is hard to spend effectively in an atmosphere of lawlessness and violence.
They had only to look at the example of Iraq, where the absence of such an agreement led to the premature withdrawal of all American forces, with baleful consequences for the country's security.Another difficulty has been the extent to which America would be obliged to defend Afghanistan against aggression from outside.
And that will have baleful consequences for investors who are betting on better times.
Third, Americans are catching on to the scourge of the nation's raging inequality, and its baleful consequences for our economy and democracy.
Meanwhile, Helen and Sylvia kept coming every day, baleful, fearful, sorry for their lot.
