Words similar to calamity

Example sentences for: calamity

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Its lyrics argue that labeling the calamity "famine" fails to draw enough attention to the British role in provoking it.
The Financial Times of London called the collapse of the WTO talks a "disaster" and a "calamity" for which the United States and the European Union were mostly to blame.
A Bush calamity as well as a Dole collapse (and perhaps a McCain implosion for good measure).
The brawny Neeson "is a calamity" as Wilde, says New York's John Simon.
Yet the calamity at the World Trade Center that same morning included catastrophic damage 1,000 feet above the ground that instantly imperiled tens of thousands of people.