devastating
adjective
tending or threatening to devastate.
devastatingly
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a word derived from
devastating.
Example Sentences
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"Just so devastatingly crap" was the pithy and rather brutal view of one Labour MP in touch with me.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
It was devastatingly effective; the so-called resistance was left reeling.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026
At its London premiere before coronavirus closed the theatres, The Standard newspaper described it as a "late masterwork... wise, witty and devastatingly sad".
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
At the opposite end of the spectrum that runs from cozy to hair-raising were two immersive fiction features about military disasters that hit devastatingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
