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detriment 

A result of harm or damage. A negative effect.
He was elected to the detriment of every burrough in New York.. She thought that her brains were a detriment to her appeal.
detriment by byline November 13, 2013
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detriment 

He sits up very late to the detriment of his health
detriment by uday dhaka November 27, 2021

Detriment of the Doubt

1) The opposite of "benefit of the doubt,"

Instead of someone assuming you have the best intentions and are a good person, or that you meant well, they instead assume the opposite; that is to say, they assume you meant them harm, you have bad intentions, are a bad person, and so on.

2) The lack of offering the benefit of the doubt.

3) assuming someone is guilty before proven innocent, instead of the other way around.
Ashley gave Johnny the detriment of the doubt when she assumed that he was an obsessed jerk rather than thinking that there was a misunderstanding on both sides due to both of their actions, which led him to believe he had hurt her and that she was better off without him, and led her to believe that he was showing his true colors after several years of good friendship. They were both wrong, and lost their friendship due to not communicating.

self-detriment 

blaming one's self, hurting one's self, etc
almost everything negative that you do to yourself belongs in this category
Her words were dripping with self-detriment.
self-detriment by WeaBilly November 12, 2015

benneficial-detriment 

1) Something that your instincts warn you away from but which you can deduce as enticing.

2) A sacrifice or risk for an expected or predicted reward.
Plural: "beneficial-detriments".
Adjective: "beneficially-detrimental".
Antonym: "detrimental-benifit"
Exe: 1) brushing your teeth even though it makes your sensitive gums hurt, is a beneficial-detriment.

Exe: 2) It was a benneficial-detriment to lose my wrist that day, because my hand was pinned to the underside of a boulder; if I had avoided any detriment I'd've kept my hand and've died there.

Detrimental 

Detrimental is an adjective that means harmful or tending to cause harm. It can also be used to mean prejudicial, disadvantageous or counterproductive.
Most people realise that smoking is detrimental to your health.
Detrimental by AKACroatalin August 1, 2015

Detramendious

Typically Used in a Shocked Tone or As a replacement for certain words like Crazy, Rediculous, Tremendiously, etc..

Its used as a word to express being shocked at information.
"I just ate 2 boxes of sushi along with a bag of gummy nerds and my stomach hurts."
2 boxes of Sushi along with gummy nerds is a detramendious combo..

"HE CALLED ME CHUBBY AND SAID THAT MY STOMACH LOOKS LIKE A PACK OF HAWAIIAN ROLLS"
A pack of Hawaiian Rolls is Detramendious..
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Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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hey let's get a drink of that?

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God Shot 

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city chicken 

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I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
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Is that cake?

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Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026
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