'baneful' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a situation or a person or thing that is causing great harm or misfortune. For example: “The dictator's baneful rule had a devastating effect on the country's economy.”
The debacle that followed America's well-intentioned joining of a UN intervention in Somalia in 1993 had a baneful effect on foreign policy for the rest of the decade.
Mr Wilkie was alarmed by gambling addiction and its baneful effect on addicts' families in his constituency.
It is a possible way out from the baneful influence of race on Malaysian politics.
Now at liberty in the Tongan capital, Nuku'alofa, Mr Mara denounces what he says is the baneful control over Commodore Bainimarama's government exerted by the attorney-general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.
So thank the North's powerful nuclear blast a week ago for putting the petty tone of the historical and territorial disputes between South Korea and Japan into some kind of perspective.China's rise and its potentially more baneful consequences for the region was the subject that dared speak its name only in huddles in the corridors.
It then lay in a drawer for two years before anyone thought it worth putting out as a book.For Cummy who had the most baneful influence on him as a boy, condemning theatre as the mouth of hell, prescribing caffeine for insomnia and instilling a very literal fear of damnation Stevenson wrote the bucolic "A Child's Garden of Verses".
Section two's concept of monopolisation can survive the acceleration to Internet time: the increased rate of change may motivate a greater emphasis on the temporal dimension of markets, but a monopoly can be both fleeting and baneful.
At more than 50,000 pages, the tax code's complexity imposes a baneful cost on the economy: a reasonable estimate is over $100 billion a year.
Marines kicking down doors and murdering men, women and children in their pyjamas: nothing could better reinforce the caricature of trigger-happy superpowerdom on the rampage.It is, however, in America itself that Haditha may have its biggest and arguably most baneful impact.
The result, eventually, ought to be a smaller government and a much more flexible economy.In this section Rotten yet robust The last, best game Subcontinental shivers Hard act to follow Clean slate A foreign affair ReprintsOn the structural side, economists say, the baneful consequences of the bubble years are now in the past.
When Mr Ozawa said that the coalition's plans to lessen the baneful influence of the bureaucracy did not go far enough, Mr Fukuda duly instructed his government to incorporate the DPJ's proposals into its bill.
