ruinously
- r in a ruinous manner or to a ruinous degree
ruinously high wages
- Still, as the 1966 elections showed, an effective campaign nowadays can be ruinously expensive.
- The automakers complain bitterly that bankruptcy would destroy their corporate reputations, turn off customers and be ruinously expensive as well.
- His father was irascible, witty, hard drinking and ruinously improvident; his mother, a devout Roman Catholic, helplessly watched her husband and family slide into near poverty and .