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blighted
adjective as in bleak
adjective as in cursed
adjective as in destroyed
adjective as in ill-fated
adjective as in ill-fated/ill-starred
Example Sentences
The ruling will bring back attention to a scandal that blighted the final years of the reign of 76 year-old King Juan Carlos.
The Shelley circle was shockingly blighted by death in the period following the Geneva gathering.
His wanderings through the blighted landscape are accompanied by thoughts of resurrection and renewal.
Could they have done more for their blighted communities than simply build personal fiefdoms and live large?
The result is that the district combines the blighted row houses of The Wire and horse country.
How many blighted buds there are for every full-blown flower or ripened fruit!
The danger with long engagements is that they often do not end in matrimony, and in such a case a young girl's future is blighted.
A vague hope brought me here, and I confess that, when I saw this hope blighted, my first thought was of revenge.
When the crop sprang up which he had himself helped to sow, he blighted it.
Cloud, that hast revealed to us this young creature and her blighted hopes, close up again.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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