The phrase 'devastating result' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when something has had a very negative outcome or effect. For example, "The news of his death had a devastating result on the rest of the family."
He said the general election "delivered a devastating result for the Labour party and the prospect of five bleak years ahead for our country".
In spite of our superior ground operation and the tremendous efforts of members and candidates, Thursday was a devastating result for Labour.
Ms Merkel's Christian Democrats were shell-shocked by the devastating result they returned in the poll in North Rhine Westphalia, which has a total population of 18 million.
A "progressive" beacon is not one I recognise as being responsible for leading a singular, narrow-minded and potentially devastating result for this country and our allies in Europe.
Avoiding the existential threat that a truly devastating result would have left us in should not shield us from the reality of our lowest vote share since the disastrous days of the early 1980s.
But unlike Mandarin, alive and kicking with over one billion speakers, there are just 250 native speakers of Noongar left on the planet – the devastating result of Australia's historical policy of forced assimilation.
Harry worms his way into the life of a handsome stranger, with funny, sexy, and devastating results.
Simon Munnery Porthole Comedy Club, London, Monday Gloriously unpredictable, you can always count on Munnery to push at the boundaries of comedy, with all kinds of devastating results.
In Eastwood's film, all sympathies are potentially misguided; all actions, even ones done in pursuit of his own clear sense of justice, risk devastating results.
They are part of a parallel economic universe in which employers are allowed to pay sub-minimum wages, with predictably devastating results.
Over the years, as Ruth nurtures Lisa's talent and the younger writer begins to publish, the power balance shifts, with quietly devastating results.
