(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.
Wreckful
Definition:
(a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(2) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(3) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
(4) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
(5) The optimism is based on the ability of people, in the end, to see sense.” Shorten said the budget included large elements that the Labor party under his leadership could never support in the parliament, including pricing Australian children out of university and “wrecking Medicare”.
(6) Water supplies are restricted to the wealthy few, and landmark buildings such as the presidential palace remain wrecked nine years after the end of the war.
(7) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(8) An investigation is under way to find out what caused the explosion that wrecked the Warrior vehicle as it patrolled the border of Helmand and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
(9) Another wonderful thing to do is to take a ferry from Tobermory to Fathom Five national marine park and swim to one of the many underwater wrecks.
(10) The government is also correct to say the current system is too complex; 1,300 pages of planning law are being used (understandably) by anyone who thinks a development project would wreck their view and damage the value of their house.
(11) We can do that but we can wreck the inquiry in the process,” the Conservative MP told Today.
(12) The life of this once serene and resilient woman has been wrecked.
(13) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
(14) The mine will destroy the forests on which the Dongria Kondh depend and wreck the lives of thousands of other Kondh tribal people living in the area."
(15) This is a gross injustice and it has wrecked my life.
(16) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(17) A healthy Neftali Feliz takes over the closer duties from Joe Nathan in Ron Washington’s pitching staff, one that was wrecked by injuries in 2013, something that has to change this time out.
(18) The bad press and everything that’s happened – it’s wrecked my life to a certain extent.
(19) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) Fabulous balls-up 2.
(20) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.