calamitous
Example Sentences
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From winning everything domestically last season without losing a game, to being 12 points off the WSL leaders and now in a battle for a Champions League spot on the 1 February, is calamitous.
From BBC
The shift is most enduring and consequential across Europe, where the trans-Atlantic partnership that kept the peace after two calamitous world wars is at risk of unraveling.
Julien Harneis, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said he feared the calamitous situation would go under the radar until the death toll mounts.
From Barron's
Countless others flicked on the TV or radio in the middle of the night, ruining their Christmas sleep patterns to follow the calamitous cricket being played in a different hemisphere.
From BBC
On a day to rival any of England's ineptitude from the previous seven weeks, both Head and Smith were dropped in a calamitous opening session in Sydney.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
