calamitous
adjective
causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
calamitously
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a word derived from
calamitous.
Example Sentences
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Harbaugh’s successor, Sherrone Moore, was calamitously ousted last December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Instead, the game was tossed away calamitously and feebly.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
U.S. statesmen and commanders, Hastings writes, lied too much to the nation and the world but most calamitously to themselves.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2018
I asked him about Alex Rodriguez, his former teammate and frenemy, and a player famously, calamitously inept during his playing career at controlling his public image.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
The Spanish sack of Tawantinsuyu calamitously expanded on this tradition of plunder, which has greatly accelerated in modern times, fueled by the desperate poverty of Peru’s Indian population.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
