disastrous
adjective
di·sas·trous
di-ˈza-strəs 
also -ˈsa-
1
: attended by or causing suffering or disaster : calamitous
a disastrous flood
2
: terrible, horrendous
a disastrous score
disastrously
adverb
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Examples of disastrous in a Sentence
Half the city was destroyed by a disastrous fire.
The bad weather could have a disastrous effect on the area's tourism industry.
His failure to back up the computer files had disastrous consequences.
The strike was economically disastrous.
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Key Background Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 after resisting calls from within his own party for weeks to end his reelection bid in the wake of his disastrous performance in the June 27 debate.
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Sara Dorn, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
That has led to a janky, unstable product, as evidenced by his disastrous technology failures when interviewing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023 and Trump a couple of months ago.
—David Goldman, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
In his book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea, Randolph recalls the disastrous meeting, where Antioco essentially had to choke back his laughter in the face of the proposal.
—Judah Taub, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2024
While the plot sounds quite disastrous upon reading, Capalbo was inspired by the overall fuzzy, stay-at-home aesthetic of the folktale and the scrumptious subject at the heart of the story: pasta.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Sara Dorn, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
That has led to a janky, unstable product, as evidenced by his disastrous technology failures when interviewing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023 and Trump a couple of months ago.
—David Goldman, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
In his book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea, Randolph recalls the disastrous meeting, where Antioco essentially had to choke back his laughter in the face of the proposal.
—Judah Taub, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2024
While the plot sounds quite disastrous upon reading, Capalbo was inspired by the overall fuzzy, stay-at-home aesthetic of the folktale and the scrumptious subject at the heart of the story: pasta.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Disastrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disastrous. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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