How to Use prejudicial in a Sentence

prejudicial

adjective

• The judge ruled that the prejudicial effect of the evidence outweighed its value.
• Trump lawyer Emil Bove said the texts are too prejudicial against Trump.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
• Deen said the gator pit comments were prejudicial and should not be played for the jury.
  — Daytona Beach News-Journal, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The court had no right to ask about any prejudicial pretexts.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 May 2017
• But not to go so far as to make the trial prejudicial,'' Hurwitz said.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The bank, for its part, denies that its treatment of Lesane was in any way prejudicial or racist.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• The 8th District’s opinion held that even the mention of LeVert’s death was prejudicial to Mills.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
• White people, as a whole, do not have to fear being victims of prejudicial hate crimes in the wake of the Nashville suicide bombing.
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• His lawyers argued that, because there is no video of the initial encounter, showing the punch would be prejudicial.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2021
• That’s where the art and the subtlety of humor comes in, when the joke is actually making fun of a sexist or prejudicial point of view.
  — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• There is pride to be had where the prejudicial is practiced with precision in the tranche and triage of tactile terminations.
  — Fox News, 31 Mar. 2018
• In both instances, the judge ruled that such evidence would be more prejudicial than useful to jurors.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024
• Childress countered that anything short of the full viewing by jurors would be prejudicial to Rak.
  — Dan Campana, Elgin Courier-News, 13 July 2017
• All of this racial tension and prejudicial ways of thinking are terrible.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Felice’s attorney, Matthew Rist, argued the video was prejudicial and had nothing to do with the rioting charges.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• There is pride to be had where the prejudicial is practiced with precision in the trenchant triage of tactile terminations.
  — Jeff Giles, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• But the novel does not allow prideful Darcy and prejudicial Elizabeth to dwell in spite alone.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
• At a pretrial hearing, Mr. Majors’s defense argued that the submission would be prejudicial to their client, and the judge agreed.
  — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• The video was introduced into evidence over the objection of Cruz’s lawyers, who argued that the footage was too prejudicial, and the witness statements were enough.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 19 July 2022
• The motion said the other plaintiffs would proceed with the case and that her withdrawal at this stage would have no negative or prejudicial effect.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 19 Aug. 2022
• When the case returns to the Eleventh Circuit, Miami will have to prove more strongly the connection to the banks prejudicial lending practices and the city’s financial injuries.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 1 May 2017
• One of Baldwin’s lawyers argued the calls were too potentially prejudicial for jurors to hear.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
• The Appeals Court agreed that the line of questioning was relevant and not unfairly prejudicial.
  — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2019
• However, lawyers for Thomas claimed the sentence should be vacated due to a prejudicial jury.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 11 Oct. 2022
• The three-justice appeals panel of the Second District Court of Appeal found no prejudicial error.
  — Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2017
• The club’s response throughout the process has been a full-throated denial, and accusations that UEFA’s process has been biased and prejudicial.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Testimony about the killings will not be permitted as that is irrelevant to the assault charge and would be prejudicial.
  — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2021
• Kies found the writings too old, irrelevant or too prejudicial to the 2019 incident.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2022
• Defense attorneys have argued that such commentary was out of line and prejudicial against the actor.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• The jury has to make a decision based on actual facts of the crime and that is why a judge has to be careful to not let unduly prejudicial character evidence color a jury's decision-making.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024