disastrously

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Recent Examples of disastrously From that point on, this martial arts video game adaptation becomes disastrously scattered, between setups and payoffs at complete odds, confounding ADR, and a total lack of any actual conclusion. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 Audi, which disastrously reconfigured its entire model-naming strategy a while ago before changing it all back, must have missed that memo. — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026 Of course, wealth taxes would produce revenues that could be directed to useful purposes, such as expanding government programs or reducing the disastrously high federal deficit. — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 If New York’s futility continues, those decisions could age disastrously. — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 In Omelet from the Other Side, ten-year-old Florence Fortescue’s life is disastrously upended when her parents move the family from an exciting city apartment to a boring farmhouse in the country. — Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 1 Sep. 2026 However, enforcement – both statewide and nationally – is disastrously underresourced. — David Michaels, The Conversation, 18 June 2026 His high point will be long forgotten, disastrously undone by his successor to plunge the world into recession, if not depression. — Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026 Their lives shift gears when a mysterious figure from Judith’s past resurfaces and a mission goes disastrously wrong. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrously
Adverb
  • Markos takes revenge by slicing up Matt’s face with a switchblade, leaving him horribly disfigured and his acting career essentially over.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Nature created measles, modern science found the vaccine to stop it cold and end it forever and now horribly, Bobby Kennedy has brought it roaring back.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • That’s not terribly surprising given the two teams have clashed multiple times over the past 25 years of Xbox.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Conservation can go terribly wrong if local communities aren’t consulted during planning.
    — David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Rooms in Blocks 8 and 9 are closest to reception, and the swimming pool, but no walk is dreadfully far (especially considering the interesting animals that meander the pathways).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Although Yamaha has been dreadfully slow about bringing its motorcycles to India, the R2 made its global debut there this week.
    — Yamaha, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • The company hopes to make diagnostic testing cheaper and more accessible — a mission that may sound awfully familiar to anyone who followed the rise and fall of Theranos.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • If anything, Trump’s escalating attempts to strong-arm people into a supposedly nicer term for AI makes him — and the industry itself — look awfully weak.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Trade talks between Washington and Ottawa ended abysmally in late August, spurring a new wave of tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of consumer goods.
    — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In practice, this meant that the state set abysmally low standards for what students should learn to advance and graduate.
    — Rachel Canter, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Trump administration officials and allies are starting to debate who will shoulder the blame if Republicans perform poorly in November.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Head coach Michael Carrick could also lose his job if the team continues to perform poorly.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • That pattern stayed broadly consistent last season, when Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur’s goalkeepers performed badly, but not atrociously.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • The less said about Bryan’s horrendously gauche fuchsia-and-gold dress with puffy armholes and halter neck the better.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 July 2026
  • Too little regulation could allow the unleashing of devilish AI that might wipe us out or at least be horrendously destructive.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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“Disastrously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disastrously. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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