ruinous

Milei once described the peso as excrement, but now he is pursuing a similar policy of propping it up that some economists say proved ruinous for his predecessors.

I won’t spoil how, but it’s emotionally ruinous for the people involved, even if Mr. Laxe stages it with a bit of cheapening suspense.

In her petition to the Supreme Court, Davis argued that Obergefell created a new constitutional right out of whole cloth that had ruinous consequences for religious liberty.

John Kennedy’s greatest fear was that he and Nikita Khrushchev were making the same mistakes as past leaders, bumbling down the same ruinous road.

Note the irony of celebrating Nixon and Kissinger for abandoning the ruinous policies toward Russia, China and Vietnam that they had risen to power advocating.