Words similar to ruinous

Example sentences for: ruinous

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Set in England before World War I, the play (based on an actual incident) tells the story of an adolescent boy expelled from a military academy for the theft of a five-shilling postal money order, and the financially ruinous attempt of his proper patriarch (played in the film by Nigel Hawthorne) to clear his son's name.
These sites are jockeying to build "brand names in the new millennium" (NYT), by hotly pursuing tactics that "would be, in any normal business, ruinous" (WP).
The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
Newspapers everywhere led on Tuesday's ruinous Turkish earthquake, where the latest tallies show more than 6,300 dead and at least 20,000 injured.
As you can see on one of the daily guided tours through Olympic Park, the result is as grandiose in design as it has been ruinous in cost, to the continuing chagrin of local taxpayers with long memories and short bank balances.