Word Meanings - SHENDFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.

SHENDFUL
Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
SHEND
disgrace, dishonor, shame; akin to G. schande, Goth. skanda. See 1. To injure, mar, spoil, or harm. "Loss of time shendeth us." Chaucer. I fear my body will be shent. Dryden. 2. To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or
DESTRUCTIVENESS
The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
DESTRUCTIVELY
In a destructive manner.
DESTRUCTIVE
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the
RUINOUS
1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
DISGRACEFUL
Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Dis*grace"ful*fy, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. B. Jonson.
SHENDSHIP
Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace. Chaucer.
PRUINOUS
Frosty; pruinose.
SELF-DESTRUCTIVE
Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal.