Meaning of 'injurious' in Samoan is: leaga

injurious: leaga

Adjective:

leaga, lamatia, mou, soonafai, lava le faataumaoia, leaga tele, inoʻino, lē lelei, faaletonu.

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Adjective(1) harmful to living things,tending to cause great harm,hurtful(2) harmful to living things(3) tending to cause great harm(4) hurtful

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(1) Once we began to study it, we found it was so injurious to your health that it was shocking.(2) For instance, they demanded that employers had to insure them work, that they would not do anything injurious to the workers and finally, that employers would permit workers their right to enter a guild.(3) He said that although this amount represented only a small portion of the total bribes, he was warned by some veteran officials that his practice may be injurious to his relations with fellow officials.(4) In spite of sufficient knowledge that tobacco consumption is injurious to health, the paradox is that tobacco intake is promoted by one section of society even as another section fights to curtail its consumption.(5) They lie to conceal actions taken to achieve covert policies injurious to the general good of the public.(6) The development would be seriously injurious to the character of the adjoining village and the visual amenities of the area generally.(7) Smoking is injurious to health but passive smoking can be more harmful.(8) The same applies to trade libels, injurious falsehood and similar claims.(9) I ask that we do something about it because I think it's thoroughly injurious to what we are genuinely about - which is equality of opportunity.(10) It has been shown that repetitive alveolar collapse and reopening can be injurious to the lung.(11) A number of weapons have been expressly forbidden for any use in warfare on the grounds that they are deemed to be excessively injurious to the immediate victims or have potentially harmful effects for others.(12) The title of the cause of actions in the 2004 claim has been changed to injurious falsehood and inducing breach of contract.(13) He claimed that the letters from the defendants were defamatory, malicious and injurious as they were calculated to damage the name, political standing and reputation.(14) Thomas Jefferson had one answer to this question, that the authority of government extends only to those actions that are injurious to others or deprive them of their equal rights.(15) Putting it another way, in such circumstances the defamer cannot be said to be u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510telling deliberate and injurious falsehoodsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(16) Bonding social capital within specific communities is seen as injurious to development as a whole, and therefore needs to be discouraged.