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destructively

/dih-struhk-tiv/US // dɪˈstrʌk tɪv //UK // (dɪˈstrʌktɪv) //

破坏性地,毁坏性地,破坏性的,破坏性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage: a very destructive windstorm.
    • : tending to overthrow, disprove, or discredit: destructive criticism.

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Examples

  • But most destructively, it distorts that most precious of all commodities for a patient with a disease: hope.

  • We have a serious problem with inequality, and corporate America has been self-destructively stubborn about boosting wages.

  • Proponents of peace must overcome the tendency to self-destructively aggrandize the settlements.

  • And Lemann also bats away the complaint that the new media outlets that do exist are destructively partisan.

  • Instead, most Americans now view the Republic as more deeply, destructively divided than ever before.

  • At the porter's desk a brief "Pas de lettres" fell destructively on the fabric of these hopes.

  • Generally speaking, the Protective system in these days is conservative, while the Free Trade system works destructively.

  • The ills themselves that he thus destructively fights remain to him as opaque as before.

  • He calls the lady ‘destructively handsome,’ and says his heart ‘gallops away in her praise most dangerously.’

  • A newly-born and dirty little stream was trickling destructively through all manner of shivering grasses and flowers.