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ruinous
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Many of them looked to have been worked by hands, though now they lay tumbled and ruinous in a bleak, barren land.†  (source)
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    Ruinously young.†  (source)
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