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Definition of Ruinously
1. Adverb. In a ruinous manner or to a ruinous degree. "Ruinously high wages"
Definition of Ruinously
1. Adverb. In a way that will cause ruin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruinously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruinously
Literary usage of Ruinously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Upper Canada Law Journal and Municipal and Local Courts' Gazette by William S. Hein & Company (1860)
"Was it fair to carve out of the centre of a farm one-third of it, so as to render
the working of the remainder ruinously expensive ? ..."
2. Observations on the Management of Trusts for the Care of Turnpike Roads by John Loudon McAdam (1825)
"... most ruinously expensive plan that any Trust can adopt. It has created feelings
of the deepest disappointment in those individuals who have so ..."
3. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1829)
"But when by a blind concourse, particular occupations are ruinously overcharged,
and others left in want of hands, the national authorities can do much ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"In the nature of things, freights cannot be regularly ruinously low in the Baltic
trade, and profitable in the trade with Canada and other parts ..."
5. Trusts, Pools, and Corporations by William Zebina Ripley (1916)
"The result is that any effort on the part of any one of these great steel companies
to inaugurate a trade war by ruinously underselling a competitor would ..."
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