prejudicial effect
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The tendency of evidence to influence the tribunal unfairly, particularly by inviting reasoning that is not properly probative of the issue.
The court excluded the material because its prejudicial effect substantially outweighed its probative value.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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