calamitously
- a word derived from calamitous.
Example Sentences
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The premise of these offerings is that we’re watching a production by an amateur drama society that is badly under-resourced and calamitously under-rehearsed.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
Needing 258 to win the match and series, England calamitously slipped to 80-5, then after a stand of 121 between Joe Root and Ben Stokes, experienced another collapse of 3-14.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2023
Now, India is asking why its infrastructure has failed so calamitously once again.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022
They call it stormy Monday – except in the literature for the ATP Tour Finals, which labelled day two “momentous” – and so it proved, calamitously so, for Daniil Medvedev and Rafael Nadal.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2019
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
