See debacular on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "From debacle.", "forms": [ { "form": "more debacular", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most debacular", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "debacular (comparative more debacular, superlative most debacular)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1924, Miller Freeman, American Lumberman - Part 1, Chicago - Periodical Publication, page 47:", "text": "What with the cyanide and electrolytic methods of gold extraction, it is only to be wondered at that the decline in the value of this metal has not been more debacular and tragic than has been seen.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1934, National Wool Grower, volume 24, National Wool Growers Association - Authors & Publishers, page 27:", "text": "Nobody made serious complaint about the lamb trade but the sheep phase was debacular. Only an idiot or a charlatan would attempt anything of auguristic nature at this moment.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2014, M. F. Dail, Limbodeswill's Wain, Trafford Publishing, page 25:", "text": "Now given over to yawning gaps in the courtship of debtors romantically linked to the annulment of fraudsters, the spectacular often has to fill in with the debacular.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Of, like, or pertaining to a debacle; calamitous; tragic; suddenly shameful." ], "links": [ [ "pertain", "pertain" ], [ "debacle", "debacle" ], [ "calamitous", "calamitous" ], [ "tragic", "tragic" ], [ "shameful", "shameful" ] ] } ], "word": "debacular" }
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