calamitous
adjective
causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
calamitously
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a word derived from
calamitous.
Example Sentences
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Voters, we know you’ll give ‘Ted Lasso’ a nod despite its calamitously messy third season, so please balance that out by honoring a heartwarming comedy we can still believe in: ‘Reservation Dogs.’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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
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
