do more harm than good
to be damaging and not helpful:
Getting involved at this stage would do more harm than good.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dangerous and harmful
- adverse
- apocalyptic
- biohazard
- damaging
- deleterious
- favour
- forbidding
- gnarly
- harm
- harmful
- inimical
- kiss
- negative
- penal
- pernicious
- rogue
- ruinous
- self-destruct
- stinking thinking
- toxic
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