ruinous
Example Sentences
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“It’s been years that we’ve been warning management about the ruinous state of equipment and lack of adequate staffing.”
“It seems to me this is a 60-40 choice,” he said, adding neither outcome would be ruinous: “I don’t think it’s a huge policy error on either side.”
I won’t spoil how, but it’s emotionally ruinous for the people involved, even if Mr. Laxe stages it with a bit of cheapening suspense.
John Kennedy’s greatest fear was that he and Nikita Khrushchev were making the same mistakes as past leaders, bumbling down the same ruinous road.
From Literature
The Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated George Custer’s cavalry, but a sustained conflict with American forces proved ruinous.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
