The phrase "a devastating indictment of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong criticism or condemnation of a person, group, or idea, often highlighting serious flaws or failures.
Example: "The report serves as a devastating indictment of the government's handling of the crisis."
Alternatives: "a harsh critique of" or "a scathing condemnation of".
The authors' answer to that question and others amounts to a devastating indictment of both parties.
He says this report is a "devastating indictment" of government policy.
The committee report served as a devastating indictment of the agencies and their departing leader, George J. Tenet.
But when that finding is weighed against another from the professor's research, I can only conclude that the study is a devastating indictment of fund-industry inefficiency.
On one level this is a devastating indictment of a fraudulent journalist and flawed human being, one who made possibly too many compromises with a tawdry system.
Writing in the Book Review, the veteran correspondent Robert Trumbull called it a "devastating indictment of American policy" and a "source of insight into the actual, day-by-day byplay of present titanic political struggle for Asia".
The Chilcot report is an unprecedented, devastating indictment of how a prime minister was allowed to make decisions by discarding all pretence at cabinet government, subverting the intelligence agencies, and making exaggerated claims about threats to Britain's national security.
But it's also a coolly devastating indictment of corruption that permeates every level of Russian society, from local government to the Orthodox church.
Encina's film, balanced exquisitely between the concrete and the abstract, between the specific and the absolute, is a quietly devastating indictment of the eternal waste of youth as cannon fodder in this and all wars.
That no one has found a way around them – not the African Union, not the UN, not the CAR – is a depressing, devastating indictment of humanity's ability to look after itself.
The Chilcot report provides an utterly devastating indictment of Tony Blair's preparations for and conduct of the Iraq war, the most lethal and grotesque aspect of his legacy.
