damning
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calamitous, cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), catastrophic, destructive, disastrous, fatal, fateful, ruinous, unfortunate
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Their scenes together are some of the funniest - and most damning - in the series. — Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com, "Matthew Macfadyen is as mortified by ‘Succession’ as you are," 12 Aug. 2019 The way Piper eventually just slipped back into a version of her old life was one of the most damning things the show could have said about structural inequality. — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "Orange Is the New Black," 7 Aug. 2019 Meanwhile, all that policy permitted Mueller to do with the damning evidence was write a report outlining the president’s lies and attempted manipulations of the investigation. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, "This is the one thing everyone hopes Mueller can clarify," 22 July 2019 But why his nickname is again in the news and additionally matters is because Beto himself is on record recently of damning Trump as a white nationalist and a racist who is responsible for the El Paso shootings. — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, "How Robert O’Rourke Became ‘Beto’," 12 Aug. 2019 Three years later, the Navy’s Sea Dragon helicopters, which stream cables that dislodge mines moored to the ocean floor, came under damning scrutiny. — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, "Iran Has Hundreds of Naval Mines. U.S. Navy Minesweepers Find Old Dishwashers and Car Parts.," 9 Aug. 2019 The scientist butted heads with Bolsonaro after the damning satellite data was released earlier in June, turning the international spotlight on the President's controversial plans to open up the world's largest rainforest to industry. — Sheena Mckenzie, CNN, "Scientist who called out Bolsonaro on Amazon deforestation is fired," 3 Aug. 2019 Similar to the damning internal memos revealing that Big Tobacco knew that cigarettes indeed caused cancer, these emails appear to show that Big Pharma knew that a significant share of their product was landing in the street, feeding addiction. — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, "The Opioid Crisis Is About More Than Corporate Greed," 30 July 2019 The lack of endorsement - nor dismissal of their conclusion - was not the clear cut or damning response many were expecting, but speaks to his credibility as a serious special prosecutor. — Mythili Sampathkumar, Fortune, "What Robert Mueller Didn’t Say in His Day-Long Testimony," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'damning.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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