disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, devastating, ghastly, unsustainable, destructive, incalculable, pernicious, weimar republic, horrendous, perverse, colossal, hideous, improvident, postbellum, cataclysmic, unpropitious, terrible, dreadful, heedless, destabilizing, nightmarish, grotesque, scandalous, debilitating, malfeasant, rapacious, inglorious, enfeebling, protracted, costly, brutal, savage, unmitigated, painful, wretched, feckless, chimerical, aggrandizing, reckless, profligate, salutary, wrenching, frightful, ignominious, confiscatory, iniquitous, civil, unimaginable, monstrous, unpalatable, sordid, murderous, misbegotten, unfathomable, frightening, bloody, ruined, bankrupt, great proletarian cultural revolution, hellish, warmongering, unremunerative, tortuous, nugatory, fratricidal, unendurable, futile, irredeemable, perilous, dubious, appalling, damaging, unrealizable, odious, untold, uncontrolled, megalomanic, unreformed, mendacious, unwonted, inalterable, horrific, baneful, inexorable, inevitable, misguided, causeless, titanic, unchecked, ignoble, dispiriting, unconscionable, horrifying, unbridled, horrid, fatuous, unending, unreformable, internecine, unedifying, demoralizing, demoralising, deplorable, wasteful, prohibitive, burdensome, lamentable, detrimental, disadvantageous, extortionate, immoral, regrettable, unhealthy, unwholesome, actual

kiss of death, ruinously

blasting, catastrophic, destructive, harmful