CALAMITOUS in a Sentence

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Some flickering efforts to spare you the premature knowledge of his calamitous position, you may observe in him this day; but hope has sunk ...

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 Meanings and Examples of CALAMITOUS
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calamitous
 a.  (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Classic Sentence:
1  Some flickering efforts to spare you the premature knowledge of his calamitous position, you may observe in him this day; but hope has sunk beneath the horizon, and the undersigned is Crushed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
2  And no long time after, they found to their sorrow that the old man's warning was true, and that the course they had themselves chosen was calamitous; as shall, hereafter, in its place be shown.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
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