negatively impacted

negatively impacted
   disappointing or loss-making
   Bankers, whose existence depends on confidence, adopt linguistic contortions to avoid any word like loss:
    Last week it revealed a slight downturn in third quarter figures and warned that fourth quarter results would be 'negatively impacted'. {Daily Telegraph, 28 September 1998 — Goldman Sachs was explaining why its planned flotation had been postponed)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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