All 4 Uses of
ruinous
in
The Time Machine
- 'As I walked I was watching for every impression that could possibly help to explain the condition of ruinous splendour in which I found the world—for ruinous it was.†
Chpt 4 *
- 'As I walked I was watching for every impression that could possibly help to explain the condition of ruinous splendour in which I found the world—for ruinous it was.†
Chpt 4
- I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered.†
Chpt 8
- I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(ruinous) catastrophic or extremely harmful; or badly damaged or decayed (like ancient ruins)