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disastrously

  • a word derived from disastrous.
    disastrous
    adjective
    causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous.

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Since then, it has gone about as disastrously as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The Islamic republic has weathered previous blistering attacks -- by Iraq in the 1980s and Israel last June -- and a 1980 US helicopter mission to free hostages ended disastrously.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

There again, it misses some other periods, such as the 1970s and parts of the 1980s, when U.S. stocks disastrously underperformed international stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

If the company gets over its overamplification, which cheapens everything it presents, that need not disastrously lessen the impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

This agreement enabled Mark Antony to take up arms again and finish what he so disastrously started.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby