| Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy. |
| On the 16th to 18th floors, the club offers its guests extras such as complimentary breakfast, ruinously good afternoon tea and sundowner cocktails overlooking the city. |
| Corruption is ruinously pernicious because of its wide range of deleterious effects, both direct and indirect. |
| He plans to visit the Hadhramaut but everyone tells him the people there will expect ruinously expensive presents. |
| Within an integrated labour market it is impossible for one region to offer much better benefits than others without generating a ruinously costly inflow of benefit seekers. |
| The countess's long fleshy face emerges, ruinously ogling, from a stack of ostrich feathers and pendant geegaws. |
