Adverse
Adverse adjective - Opposed to one's interests.
Usage example: all the adverse publicity really caused the movie star's popularity to suffer
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Harmless Villain: Thorzuul's challenges may have potentially adverse consequences, but aside from turning people to stone occasionally, Thorzuul does not seem to do much that is really evil.
Source: Series / Storylords -
In fact, they would prefer to just explore the world and uncover the history over fighting evil...though they aren't adverse to multi-tasking!
Source: Adventurer Archaeologist - Evil-Detecting Dog: Grey, Igor Dolinsky's Canine Companion, has an adverse reaction to vampires, which means he mostly just kills them on sight.
Source: Literature / Night Watcher
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