Similar words: destruction, constructive, instruction, obstruction, constructing, construction, instructional, instruct. Meaning: [-tɪv] adj. causing destruction or much damage.
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31. Alcoholics often tend to have stormy and destructive relationships.
32. Guilt can be a very destructive emotion.
33. The border war has been wasteful and destructive.
34. Her destructive powers are even greater than Ewan's!
35. Cizek's method of criticism is constructive, never destructive.
36. It was far worse, more insidious, more destructive.
37. Jealousy is a very destructive emotion.
38. Good imagination is constructive, bad imagination is destructive. Dr T.P.Chia
39. Nothing is more destructive to a partnership than for one partner to feel that he or she is being taken advantage of.
40. But it was the Chickasaw, commanded by George H.. Perkins,(http://sentencedict.com/destructive.html) that fired the most destructive shots.
41. Nizan's writings of this period are charged with the destructive dynamism of the newly converted.
42. This doesn't mean, I hasten to insist, that natural selection is a purely destructive process.
43. Surely there could not have been a more destructive fire than Calvary; but more was to come.
44. None the less, he was aware of John's vulnerability and John's need to be protected by adults against his destructive impulses.
45. An irresistible attraction to destructive men ran a close second.
46. This avenging boar, the agent of the insulted goddess, is henceforth identified with the destructive forces that produce tragedy.
47. Their destructive power was enough to upset the whole economy of a strong and healthy country.
48. Why can't you do that, instead of being so ... so destructive.
49. Could this be a prelude to a trade war even more destructive of world prosperity than a military war?
50. The result is a gripping sense of guilt which locks victims into an even more destructive process of self-blaming.
51. This emphasizes also his primitive appeal to fire as the most destructive force.
52. In addition to spray drift, intensive farming has a destructive effect on the surrounding fauna and flora.
53. The way confrontation is handled should not be destructive to the counsellee.
54. Civil wars were not the only destructive forces in the Merovingian kingdoms.
55. Fanning the flames of hatred on the street, on television or in the so-called intellectual press feeds destructive forces.
56. But more competitive does not necessarily mean more environmentally destructive farming.
57. If multiple warheads are deployed, the different blast waves reinforce each other, increasing their destructive power.
58. Of all the reversals, though, the most destructive in the long run was the about-face of the Communist world.
59. This is unfortunate, for such marriages are destructive to both partners.
60. Step ten is seen as a practical means for avoiding a slip back into destructive thinking patterns and drinking.
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