ruinously in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for ruinously in the English»Spanish Dictionary

ruinously [Am ˈruənəsli, Brit ˈruːɪnəsli] ADV

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You don't have to be a bleeding heart to see that gaoling people for drug-related crime is short-sighted, ruinously expensive, and socially counter-productive.
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That can result in owners whose assessments rise well above average being punished with ruinously high tax bills.
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In practice, the overwhelming majority of pursuits arise from property crimes, theft, drug possession, an inebriated motorist or young drivers thinking irrationally, ruinously.
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I might add that it is also ruinously expensive.
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But the film's imaginative freefall is ruinously anchored to a bogus sense of deep feeling.
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This is why football tickets are now ruinously expensive; why most sport is now only accessible via a costly television package.
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All his coaches tell him that it's ruinously self-destructive behaviour, yet still he can't help himself when the moment arrives.
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We have the most bloated banking sector of any major economy, making our public finances extremely vulnerable in the event of another ruinously expensive bail-out.
www.telegraph.co.uk
The race had proven ruinously expensive, and the two nations were bitterly hostile toward each other.
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The ruinously expensive project, worked on from 1685 to 1690, was never completed.
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