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Funest

//fjuːˈnɛst// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable. archaic

    "I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest."

Etymology

From French funeste, from Latin fūnestus, from fūnus (“funeral; death”).

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