[
US
/dɪˈzæstɹəsɫi/
]
[ UK /dˌɪsˈæstɹəsli/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsˈæstɹəsli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a disastrous manner
the real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began
How To Use disastrously In A Sentence
- Parliamentarians are also accused of disastrously shoehorning the works into inappropriate settings which fail to show them to their best advantage.
- One of the helicopters disastrously crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994.
- Outside, the parched soil has turned to dust and his crops have failed disastrously.
- McGregor has become some sort of whipping boy lately for trendy reviewers, who seem to think he's some kind of disastrously awful actor that stinks up every project he's in. Hollywood Elsewhere
- It is undeniable that the aftermath of the remarkable military victory has been disastrously handled.
- There is nervousness in military circles that such a war could backfire disastrously.
- The programme has angered rail watchdogs who accuse struggling Railtrack of timetabling the various closures disastrously.
- Expeditions which are decided upon and organised with insufficient care generally end disastrously.
- But naturally the plan goes disastrously wrong. The Sun
- Wells was married twice: firstly, and disastrously, in 1891 to his cousin, Isabel.