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单词 disastrously
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Definition of disastrously in English:

disastrously

adverb dɪˈzɑːstrəslidəˈzæstrəsli
  • 1In a way that causes great damage.

    the economy has been disastrously mismanaged
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Having seen many of her students become disastrously addicted to drugs, she determined to kill the drug trafficker.
    • Expeditions which are decided upon and organised with insufficient care generally end disastrously.
    • One of the helicopters disastrously crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994.
    • Now fox populations have dropped disastrously.
    • There is nervousness in military circles that such a war could backfire disastrously.
    • The unsuccessful campaign ended disastrously with the death of five-sixths of the colonial soldiery.
    • It is undeniable that the aftermath of the remarkable military victory has been disastrously handled.
    • The anorexia sufferer is more likely to become disastrously underweight, while the bulimic will vary between the extremes of "normal".
    • At the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, the French army was disastrously defeated by Flemish burghers.
    • The disastrously negative effects on investors ' morale cannot be denied.
    1. 1.1 In an extremely unsuccessful way.
      the party fared disastrously in by-elections
      as submodifier the mission went disastrously wrong
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Parsons, a good actress who has disastrously taken up directing in recent years, directed the whole silly adventure.
      • During his mayorship, he demonstrated great administrative ability but a disastrously ill-tuned political antenna.
      • They each share one trait in common: they are all ceaselessly, painfully, disastrously unfunny.
      • The whole saga is starting to look disastrously dated.
      • As Mr. Taranto points out, a closer examination of the facts might have prevented Mr. Buchanan from being so disastrously mistaken.
      • No doubt the Labor Party will be spending a lot of time, money and energy analysing how it so disastrously lost the election.
      • Even when a company is right about the technology, it's all too easy for it to be disastrously early for the market.
      • It is now 12 years since our rail system was disastrously privatised and allowed to run down.
      • Wells was married twice: firstly, and disastrously, in 1891 to his cousin, Isabel.
      • He says the coach made some terrible errors and described the Lions as having done "disastrously badly" in New Zealand.

Definition of disastrously in US English:

disastrously

adverbdəˈzastrəslēdəˈzæstrəsli
  • 1In a way that causes great damage.

    the economy has been disastrously mismanaged
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Now fox populations have dropped disastrously.
    • There is nervousness in military circles that such a war could backfire disastrously.
    • It is undeniable that the aftermath of the remarkable military victory has been disastrously handled.
    • The unsuccessful campaign ended disastrously with the death of five-sixths of the colonial soldiery.
    • The disastrously negative effects on investors ' morale cannot be denied.
    • The anorexia sufferer is more likely to become disastrously underweight, while the bulimic will vary between the extremes of "normal".
    • One of the helicopters disastrously crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994.
    • At the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, the French army was disastrously defeated by Flemish burghers.
    • Having seen many of her students become disastrously addicted to drugs, she determined to kill the drug trafficker.
    • Expeditions which are decided upon and organised with insufficient care generally end disastrously.
    1. 1.1 In an extremely unsuccessful way.
      as submodifier the mission went disastrously wrong
      some of these investments have fared disastrously
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is now 12 years since our rail system was disastrously privatised and allowed to run down.
      • The whole saga is starting to look disastrously dated.
      • No doubt the Labor Party will be spending a lot of time, money and energy analysing how it so disastrously lost the election.
      • Even when a company is right about the technology, it's all too easy for it to be disastrously early for the market.
      • They each share one trait in common: they are all ceaselessly, painfully, disastrously unfunny.
      • During his mayorship, he demonstrated great administrative ability but a disastrously ill-tuned political antenna.
      • As Mr. Taranto points out, a closer examination of the facts might have prevented Mr. Buchanan from being so disastrously mistaken.
      • Wells was married twice: firstly, and disastrously, in 1891 to his cousin, Isabel.
      • Parsons, a good actress who has disastrously taken up directing in recent years, directed the whole silly adventure.
      • He says the coach made some terrible errors and described the Lions as having done "disastrously badly" in New Zealand.
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