What's the difference between ramshackle and ruinous?

Ramshackle


Definition:

  • (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
  • (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As we settle down to chat in the deputy prime minister's ramshackle constituency base at 85 Netherfield Road, Sheffield, it is hard to dispel the impression that he's still a man under siege.
  • (2) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
  • (3) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
  • (4) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
  • (5) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
  • (6) Then he showed me another yellow building; this one was more like a ramshackle shed, with wooden props that looked like they were stopping it collapsing into the mud.
  • (7) The conference communique, drafts of which have been widely leaked , recognises, in effect, that the ramshackle, temporary governance arrangements in place since 2004 have not worked and are no longer sustainable.
  • (8) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
  • (9) A few years later, Davies had his own ramshackle premises; in 2011, Tangled Parrot was named Wales's best independent record shop, just as he was expanding the business to include the Parrot Music Bar and Café .
  • (10) Fires regularly swept through the ramshackle huts, which remained until the local government built high-rise flats in 1970.
  • (11) Arcade Fire's sound is all their own, and it has become – even with its moments of ramshackle amateurishness, and its merging of the raw and the refined – one of the key rock signatures of recent times.
  • (12) We fled the capital almost a decade ago, swapping a rented flat in Kennington, south London, for a mortgage on a ramshackle old house in the Oxford suburbs.
  • (13) And Adriana spoke on her own behalf: “One of the most important changes in my path being involved in the Alex Nieto case has been to learn more about restorative practices, because as someone trained in legal systems, I know that the pain and fear that we are not safe from police in our communities will not go away until there is personal accountability by those who harm us.” Fear that we aren't safe from police in our communities won't go away until there's accountability by those who harm us Adriana Camarena Adriana, her historian husband, and their friends – including an Aids activist and a choreographer – who live nearby in a ramshackle old building, had faced their own eviction battle last year, and won it.
  • (14) There were two: a ramshackle center housing a combined pharmacy, city hall and police station, and a Payday Loans outlet decorated with neon lights, promising $10,000 on the spot.
  • (15) That conflict has deeply divided Lebanon along sectarian lines, and paralysed the country's ramshackle political system to the point that it has been stuck with a weak and ineffectual caretaker government since April.
  • (16) The city’s walls have become complex documents, authored and re-authored like ramshackle Wikipedia pages.
  • (17) Layali was born on 7 October 1998 on the open deck of a ramshackle fishing boat crammed with 74 migrants.
  • (18) Voted for by approximately 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes have faced criticism for what is perceived as their ramshackle structure and lowbrow sensibility.
  • (19) The family has been working on farmland to cover rent for two ramshackle tents on the edge of a field since February 2012.
  • (20) Casas da Comporta, Alentejo Don't be fooled by the sleepy, slightly ramshackle air: Comporta is where Lisbon's fashion and media set come to get some sand between their perfectly manicured toes.

Ruinous


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
  • (a.) Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
  • (a.) Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This would be even larger than the 10:1 ratio that proved so ruinous for Iceland and presents a significant risk for the country's economic stability," it added.
  • (2) But Valls is relishing a fight, calling Hamon’s ideas “ruinous”, “unachievable promises” and electoral suicide.
  • (3) Two very different blueprints for the future of Britain's transport network and its economy, but with one tarmac-coated common assumption: that the future inevitably lies in building more airport capacity at the cost of many billions and allowing tens of thousands more flights – at ruinous cost to the environment.
  • (4) With European leaders also facing a potentially ruinous debt crisis, a leading Wall Street figure described the prospect of a US default as catastrophic.
  • (5) James Knowles III, the city’s part-time mayor, has repeatedly warned that the costs of implementing the reform agreement – known as a “consent decree”, could be financially ruinous.
  • (6) The burning question for the climate is whether we can agree to leave half the world’s oil and gas in the ground, as we must if we are to avoid ruinous warming.
  • (7) Ministers know the decision will be ruinous – in Somalia particularly – but neither they nor Barclays nor the regulatory authorities can summon the courage or the vision to do anything about it.
  • (8) Quangos also do for governments what the mast did for Ulysses: outsourcing decisions helps them manage ruinous temptations.
  • (9) When Pedro Rodríguez squandered an opportunity to add a second goal against Germany, it did not feel like a potentially ruinous lapse.
  • (10) Imagine being a Lithuanian cleaner, for instance, and told that you were part of a swamp, a flood, a ruinous invasion made rhetorically part of something akin, say, to the devastation of the lowlands of Somerset last winter.
  • (11) The previously ruinous road from Lashkar Gah to the local city of Kandahar has recently been resurfaced - thanks to US money - so the 150 miles can be covered in around three hours.
  • (12) A climate sceptic, he launched a poster campaign in 2010 to promote his opposition to climate change policies which he described as "Probably unnecessary, Certainly ineffectual, Ruinously expensive."
  • (13) Scariest of all, Andrew Lilico, chief economist at think tank Policy Exchange, suggested that interest rates might have to rise to 8% if a double-dip is followed by an inflationary boom, a ruinous prospect for many British households.
  • (14) So disowning Blairism is a major disaster for Labour, though Hyman’s article concedes that Blair’s disconnect from his party base was pretty ruinous.
  • (15) "There are many devastating stories of how RBS has wrecked good businesses and the ruinous impact this has on the lives of the business owners," said Tomlinson.
  • (16) The grand folly of monument-driven tourism is over, the lessons expensively, ruinously, learned.
  • (17) If Ed Miliband really wants to distance himself from this ruinous legacy, he could start by promising to mend the cities torn apart by Pathfinder.
  • (18) And a reckoning for a ruinous reorganisation that has dragged it down and left it on the brink.” The Tories, who were quick to criticise Miliband for failing to mention the deficit in his speech, intensified the pressure after Labour released a party political broadcast which also did not mention the deficit.
  • (19) The low-tax jurisdictions you despise are a long-stop against ruinous over-taxation.
  • (20) This experimentation proved ruinous, and many were retired ignominiously from drug distribution.