Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being disastrous.
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- noun The state or condition of being
disastrous .
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Examples
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A finer distinction can be drawn between movies that are previewed on Wednesday evening (disastrousness almost guaranteed) and movies that are first screened on Wednesday afternoon (probably awful, but you never know).
'Witch': Toil And Trouble Joe Morgenstern 2011
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It began a hopeful new chapter for the country while relieving us of a presidency whose disastrousness we are just beginning to appreciate.
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Now superimpose on this graph another one, known as the Catastrophonic Instrument, where moments are ranked higher or lower depending on the disastrousness of their consequences, the spectacular nature of their historic awfulness.
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However, Sanders stopped short of saying he would introduce outright articles of impeachment, saying citizens should focus on getting Republicans out of power in the 2006 election if they want to end Bush's disastrousness.
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The KGB, as the most informed organization in the country, was the first to realize the disastrousness of the gerontocracy's course.
The Making of Mr. Putin Tolstaya, Tatyana 2000
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I will make him a mockery of all kings, drag his high spirit through the mud of disastrousness.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Rice, Condoleeza disastrousness of as National Security Advisor, 449
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What is happening in Scotland exemplifies the disastrousness of Labour's attempts at constitutional reform.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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What is happening in Scotland exemplifies the disastrousness of Labour's attempts at constitutional reform.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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What made this harder to bear was that though no fact is better established in theatrical business than the financial disastrousness of moral discredit, the journalists who had done all the mischief kept paying vice the homage of assuming that it is enormously popular and lucrative, and that I and Mr Daly, being exploiters of vice, must therefore be making colossal fortunes out of the abuse heaped on us, and had in fact provoked it and welcomed it with that express object.
How He Lied to Her Husband George Bernard Shaw 1903
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