Ruinous
Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
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Ruinous Quotations
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Lech Walesa
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
James Gould Cozzens
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Ruinous Translations
ruinous in Spanish is ruinoso
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