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destructive
adverse, cataclysmic, contrary, demolitionary, disparaging, hurtful, miasmal, pernicious, subversionary, vandalish, wreckful
Definition
adj.
causing destruction or much damage
Last update: August 2, 2015
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He proposed a policy that is
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to the economy.
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On the whole, however, the number of
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lightning strokes and of days of thunder do not show a close parallelism.
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Fanaticism, Religious,
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to Art, i, 105; its Effects in England, i, 105.
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That is unsatisfactory; and it is worse,-- it is self-
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A Destructive Beetle and a Remedy.
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Vice, as Aristotle put it, is _phthartike arches_--
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of moral first principles.
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In this lies the
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significance of the Peace of Paris.
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(2) The provisions relating to iron-ore require less detailed attention, though their effects are
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Locke, has it thus, Noxious brute that is
destructive
to their being.
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But unless snails and other
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grubs were kept away the trees would not thrive.
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But the process is
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of moulds, and therefore has its flaws.
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