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It was a ruinous war.ruinous = extremely harmful
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...children are ruinous; (source)
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...this part of the ancient road was much more ruinous than any they had yet seen. They had to pick their way over great broken stones and between boulders and across rubble: (source)ruinous = damaged
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He gave notes, took up ruinous obligations, dealt with usurers and all the race of lenders. (source)ruinous = catastrophic or extremely harmful
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Also, sodas were a ruinous indulgence and would rot your teeth.† (source)
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He explained that he was a Jew in upbringing, in blood, but also that Jewry was now more than ever a label—a ruinous piece of the dumbest luck around.† (source)
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The threat Mary Magdalene posed to the men of the early Church was potentially ruinous.† (source)
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Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative).† (source)
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Maybe they have discovered some fact about his parentage that even he doesn't know, something ruinous.† (source)
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What frightened Cedric about this place, what kept him away all year, went beyond a lifetime of admonitions from Bishop Long about black people ruinously giving in to temptation or Barbara's zero tolerance for alcohol and sexual indiscretion.† (source)
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The fines, in addition to the prison sentences, were ruinous: two hundred thousand, half a million dollars.† (source)
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But this incurable loitering beside Bathsheba Everdene stole his time ruinously.† (source)
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You will need to pay them far more than I do, and all of Qarth laughs at my ruinous generosity.† (source)
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What an improbable creature I must have seemed to them, a boy black as the winter sea and ruinously burnt.† (source)
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Their metal bodies re-form, weaving together at the seams, into a ruinous, smoking beast.† (source)
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Ruinously young.† (source)
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