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.
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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”.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Through all the wreckful storms that cloud the brow of War.
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Through all the wreckful storms that cloud the brow of War.
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