"Destructive" is a word in ENGLISH
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 morals of
youth.
One who destroys; a radical reformer; a
destructionist.
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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