Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Very distressingly; calamitously; ruinously.
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- adverb In a
disastrous way. (Of the nature of adisaster ;calamitously .)
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- adverb in a disastrous manner
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Examples
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Mrs. Kirchner started off her first term disastrously, getting into a blowup with Washington over a U.S. prosecutor's investigation into Miami man who allegedly delivered a suitcase of cash from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to Mrs. Kirchner's 2007 campaign.
Argentina's Kirchner Begins Second Term Matt Moffett 2011
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Who got rid of Frank Field, Brown did (Thereby condemning benefits and housing to remain disastrously unreformed).
Cannot Resist Newmania 2007
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How else can we explain disastrously flooding and unreformed NHS with tax booty unless they really believed the Tories were trying to starve it to death?
Archive 2007-03-04 Newmania 2007
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Who got rid of Frank Field, Brown did (Thereby condemning benefits and housing to remain disastrously unreformed).
Archive 2007-07-01 Newmania 2007
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How else can we explain disastrously flooding and unreformed NHS with tax booty unless they really believed the Tories were trying to starve it to death?
I`m not a racist but...... Newmania 2007
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Needless to say, a very simple crust recipe turned out disastrously, which is ridiculous.
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TSMC's 40nm process maturity can simply be described as disastrously bad.
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Britain's top policeman should have the power to appoint his own senior officers after disgraced commander Ali Dizaei was "disastrously" picked by politicians, a former head of Scotland Yard has claimed.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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McGregor has become some sort of whipping boy lately for trendy reviewers, who seem to think he's some kind of disastrously awful actor that stinks up every project he's in.
Hollywood Elsewhere 2010
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Boos from the Right, who point out that the figure falls "disastrously" short of the 50 per cent decrease in
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