(adjective) deadly or pernicious in influence / (adjective) foreboding or threatening evil
no doubt exercised some baleful influence
Nietzsche, on Hitler
Whether all this academic influence is baleful or not
The party’s shift after Lenin’s death, from that plaintive, embattled sense that there had been little alternative but to strive in imperfect conditions, to the later bad hope of Socialism in One Country, is a baleful result of recasting necessity as virtue.
discussions of that freedom are not linked to the baleful conditions created, in part, by the universities themselves
The baleful 1969 decision to 'go IBM' was worthy of any corporate capitalist boardroom
on the Soviet space push
in order to deliver this baleful, Kierkegaardian news