ruinous

He sees the adventure as ruinous, both in terms of fiscal and foreign policy.

Below the fort, was a ruinous mill, in a gloomy dell, through which the river wended its silent course.

If any more, therefore, be asked than 1000, it would be the most ruinous thing in the world for him to accept of the office.

Broken archways, once part of the Appian Way, are made into substructures for ragged, ruinous modern houses.

For our bark there was no way but to return where the cargo came from, at a ruinous loss, too, of time and money.

A sword was drawn, and the first blood shed in a long and ruinous war.