ruiner

Example Sentences

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It was less a destroyer of worlds and more of a regional ruiner.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Q. Birthday ruiner: I think I behaved badly last night.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2016

They took away Roger Ailes' BlackBerry Esquire's profile of Fox News architect and longtime ruiner of America Roger Ailes is a great read.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2011

Je ne connais point la Mine; j’ai trouvé seulement ailleurs un passage qui prouve que ce jeu était tres-dangereux, et qu’on pouvait s’y ruiner en peu de tems.”

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

FASHION, Dame, heart breaker, bank account ruiner, and patron saint of French shop-keepers.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie