Nonbeneficial

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not beneficial; that produces no benefit.

    "In more recent times, she writes, they have been disproportionately enrolled in risky, nonbeneficial research in gynecology, oncology, surgery, pediatrics, infectious disease and genetics ."

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"In more recent times, she writes, they have been disproportionately enrolled in risky, nonbeneficial research in gynecology, oncology, surgery, pediatrics, infectious disease and genetics ."

Etymology

From non- + beneficial.

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