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tumbledown
adjective as in ruinous
Weak matches
- annihilative
- baleful
- baneful
- calamitous
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- crippling
- damaging
- deadly
- deleterious
- depleting
- dilapidated
- dire
- draining
- exhausting
- extravagant
- fatal
- fateful
- harmful
- hurtful
- immoderate
- impoverishing
- injurious
- murderous
- noxious
- pernicious
- ramshackle
- rundown
- shattering
- suicidal
- unfortunate
- wasteful
- withering
- wrackful
Example Sentences
But Tumbledown is worth sticking with, though, and it blossoms in surprising ways.
All clear, Tom called, and there was a sudden rush of wet figures for the poor sanctuary of the tumbledown shack.
The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics.
In one corner a tumbledown bookstand, in the other the fantastic silhouette of a hideous violoncello case.
Rail fences, for the most part in a tumbledown condition, paralleled the dirt road here and there.
Bonner was standing near the tumbledown fireplace, placidly lighting a cigarette.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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