Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing wreck; producing or involving destruction or ruin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
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- adjective poetic Causing
wreckage ;ruinous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wow...the fact that the wreckerator didn't even attempt Dogbert makes it even more wreckful.
Demons of "Stupity" Jen 2009
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The pattern going across both numbers blends them into one wreckful blob.
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The election of Barack Obama was an endorsement of the renunciation of eight years of woeful, wreckful, wretched, and divisive “leadership”.
Archive 2008-11-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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The election of Barack Obama was an endorsement of the renunciation of eight years of woeful, wreckful, wretched, and divisive “leadership”.
MESSIAH News from Mad Plato 2008
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Be like the Blacks before her and take the attitude that there was no burden that couldn't be lightened, no wreckful life that couldn't be set right by heading off down the road.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Be like the Blacks before her and take the attitude that there was no burden that couldn't be lightened, no wreckful life that couldn't be set right by heading off down the road.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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The sad sagacity of age has taught us that nothing built with hands can "hold out against the wreckful siege of battering days," and yet we place this tablet on the walls of this century-old Rotunda in response to a wish that lies deep in the heart of humanity.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922
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I have heard it rumored, for instance, that the Parthenon marbles are in London, and that the Parthenon itself has suffered from the "wreckful siege of battering days"; that the walls to Piræus contain hardly one stone left upon another.
Journeys to Bagdad 1906
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Through all the wreckful storms that cloud the brow of War.
The Lady of the Lake 1810
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Through all the wreckful storms that cloud the brow of War.
The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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