destructive

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  1. adjective Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous: a destructive act; a policy that is destructive to the economy.
  2. adjective Designed or tending to disprove or discredit: destructive criticism.

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  • Even more self-destructive is the public education industry's myopic obsession with college entrance numbers over career success and feeding industry pipelines. —  Comments for Bacons Rebellion
  • Self-destructive is the Human condition and racial discrimination is one of the saddest methods of classification in history. —  Home
  • Forget being overly destructive, which is a recipe for a harsh response from the police state. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • It was a kind of behavior that was very self-destructive, and seemed brought on by a kind of limitless freedom a lot of rich kids have. —  OBLIQUITY65
  • Bibble 5's Selective Editing is completely non-destructive, and isn't limited to a small set of tools. —  ePHOTOzine News Feed
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  1. = French destructif = Provencal destructiu = Spanish Portuguese destructivo = Italian distruttivo, from Late Latin destructivus, from Latin destructus, past participle of destruere, destroy: see destroy.
 

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/dəˈstrəktɪv/
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