Crossword-Solution: RUINOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ruinous | a. | Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. |
| Ruinous | a. | Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state. |
| Ruinous | a. | Composed of, or consisting in, ruins. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “RUINOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wreaking destruction | 1 answer |
| Like bankruptcy, maybe | 1 answer |
| Druid abandoning dates in France? We will become desperate (7) | 1 answer |
| Bringing destruction | 1 answer |
| causing ruin | 11 answers |
| devastating | 13 answers |
| cataclysmic | 15 answers |
| AN ARM AND A LEG | 19 answers |
| "Bankruptcy" | 39 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| pernicious | 56 answers |
| unmerciful | 59 answers |
| destructive | 61 answers |
| baneful | 62 answers |
| Defamatory | 64 answers |
| catastrophic | 65 answers |
| Disastrous | 71 answers |
| Shabby | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RUINOUS (5)
Nor was his eare less peal’d With noises loud and ruinous (to compare Great things with small) then when _Bellona_ storms, With all her battering Engines bent to rase Som Capital City, or less then if this frame Of Heav’n were falling, and these Elements In mutinie had from her Axle torn The stedfast Earth.
Dear son of Aegeus, to the gods alone Is given immunity from eld and death; But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time.
This it was which had caused the regular beating noise, and the rhythmic shocks that had kept our ruinous refuge quivering.
And now the sun with more effectual beams Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds, Who all things now behold more fresh and green, After a night of storm so ruinous, Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray, To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
They saw a weedgrown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs.
Quotes with RUINOUS (3)
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?
The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reas…
I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat — oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to fee…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2003–2007).