Примеры употребления для ruinous
1. "That would be logistically impossible and economically ruinous.
2. Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East, I find myself looking backward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1'73.
3. Tax credits to poor families are overpaid for two years running, leaving many facing ruinous repayments.
4. Protection from ruinous and predatory lawsuits, in exchange for a simple code of behavior.
5. But individual rationality often pushes us toward solutions that are collectively ruinous.