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ruinous
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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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    The other boy was a mirror that granted a ruinous glimpse of himself.†  (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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    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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    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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    Maybe they have discovered some fact about his parentage that even he doesn't know, something 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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    The fines, in addition to the prison sentences, were ruinous: two hundred thousand, half a million dollars.†  (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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    But when Winston glanced again at Rutherford's ruinous face, he saw that his eyes were full of tears.†  (source)
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    But this incurable loitering beside Bathsheba Everdene stole his time ruinously.†  (source)
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    He could face Hiroshima now, because a gaudy phoenix had risen from the ruinous desert of 1945: a remarkably beautiful city of more than a million inhabitants — only one in ten of whom was a hibakusha — with tall modern buildings on broad, tree— lined avenues crowded with Japanese cars, all of which had English lettering on them and appeared to be brand-new; a city of strivers and sybarites, with seven hundred and fifty-three bookstores and two thousand three hundred and fifty-six bars.†  (source)
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    Ruinously young.†  (source)
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