ruinously

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ru·in·ous

(ro͞o′ə-nəs)

adj.

1. Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive: a ruinous habit; a ruinous rivalry.

2. Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.

ru′in·ous·ly adv.

ru′in·ous·ness n.

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Adv.

ruinously - in a ruinous manner or to a ruinous degree; "ruinously high wages"

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rovinosamente

ruinously

[ˈruːɪnəslɪ] ADV → ruinosamente
ruinously expensive → carísimo, de lo más caro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ruinously

adv ruinously expensive → wahnsinnig teuer (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ruinously

[ˈruːɪnəslɪ] adv ruinously expensive → costosissimo/a

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The cost of transporting him would make him ruinously expensive.

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He is of most expensive, ruinously expensive habits; and if, in a moment of caprice and wilfulness, he were to marry this young lady, and so deprive himself of the means of gratifying the tastes to which he has been so long accustomed, he would--my dear madam, he would break the gentle creature's heart.

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On the long lines, where it had to be as thick as a lead pencil, the expense seemed to be ruinously great.

This is a ruinously large number, from a profit-making point of view; but the inexorable fact is that in a telephone system nothing is insignificant.

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No person living would be capable of so certainly extracting the correspondence from him, on such ruinously cheap terms as his old master.

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With cigs costing an average of PS10.40 a pack of 20 after the Budget statement, this habit is ruinously expensive as well as lethal.

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Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Senators Rand Paul and Tom Udall introduced a bill to end the ruinously expensive conflict in Afghanistan, declaring 'victory' in the longest war in US history after 18 years, some $2 trillion and over 100,000 dead.