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been ruinous
adjective
Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
synonyms
Exact(22)
It would have been ruinous to our fiscal future.
And, they say, that tenure has been ruinous.
They have been ruinous for the people whose homes and businesses have been damaged and destroyed.
A strike would have been ruinous for United, which lost a record $2.1 billion last year.
The conflict with India sustains a gigantic military establishment that has been ruinous both for the exchequer and for democracy.
The charge that Mr. Obama had been "palling around with terrorists," in Sarah Palin's phrase, might have been ruinous.
Similar(36)
(Riches without virtue are ruinous).
A dozen are ruinous.
The mounting debt is ruinous.
Sure, they are ruinous polluters.
And professionally, it was ruinous.
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