Adjective : a calamitous defeat.    From Dictionary.com. 

He argues that the world has changed calamitously since Huxley wrote his pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Observer brought the WWF into being] Reference

Here we were to endure too many a moment of bleak despondency, when all our hopes seemed to have gone so calamitously astray.    From Wordnik.com.  [BB: Three Against the Wilderness **] Reference

No wonder No10 is stressing that Gordon Brown had “no prior knowledge” of what looks like calamitously heavy-handed policing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A scary use of police time] Reference

He did that, and knows that he did it and presumably — not being an utter and complete imbecile — knows that it was a calamitously wrong call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say you’re sorry — but never apologise for anything you’ve actually done] Reference

It paused for eight years while Clinton was in office, imperfect though he certainly was, and then on January 20, 2001 it got under way again, calamitously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Left » Blog Archive » What Unions Do For You] Reference

On the third hand, there are real calamitously costly high-tech "heroic" medical costs, not expected and often near the end of life (or threatening to be so).    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxes and Health Insurance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

This was wrong, hopelessly wrong, calamitously wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spectator Live] Reference

Henry, the man who got it so calamitously wrong in 2007?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Rugby News - Rugby Union News] Reference

…though I guess that could also calamitously backfire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Breakdown] Reference

The latter heist ends calamitously with Max being shot in the foot and jailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

The trouble was Kenny Perry deceived everybody, and most calamitously himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

"I have a proud record of getting things calamitously wrong," said the TV host.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

It fails calamitously, disrupting industrial development throughout the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

He was quite innocent -- calamitously innocent and commercial and awful in his views.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Tembarom] Reference

Garnaut accepted the science that tells us the planet is warming rapidly and calamitously.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

There was no credible explanation for why the postwar planning was so calamitously inadequate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

A police source said: "This is something that has come tumbling down very quickly and calamitously.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

She was not deceived, and boys are not only superb strategic actors sometimes, but calamitously quick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flirt] Reference

This proved calamitously short-sighted, but we didn't learn from it -- see under "Felix Hernandez in March 2006.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NCAA News -- www.ncaa.com] Reference

In short, calamitously bad policies that induce rapid currency depreciation, or high inflation, would do the trick.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

Few can now doubt that they have been calamitously inadequate foundations, made of paper and feathers rather than stone and concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

And higher in the night sky, knocked calamitously out of orbit, Chase's astronaut fiancée is trapped in a field of Chinese space mines.    From Wordnik.com.  [VQR] Reference

In all our world-life there is nothing so ostentatiously or calamitously amiss as the ignorance and customs of our relation to children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference

Now the changes brought about by Michael Angelo -- and permitted, or persisted in calamitously, by Tintoret -- are in the four points these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870] Reference

The Pistons 'No. 2 pick in the 2003 draft, he was famously, and calamitously, chosen ahead of All-Stars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference

"Counterfactual simulations indicate that world prices would have increased slightly between 1929 and 1933, instead of declining calamitously," he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

If the prices which have been most inflexible downward prove highly flexible in an upward direction with inflation, the whole undertaking will fail calamitously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Totten's Weblog] Reference

But one thing we know from 5,000 years of recorded history ... and evidence that goes back farther still .. is that option (1) is guaranteed to be calamitously wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contrary Brin] Reference

Enormously, calamitously different.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Child of the Gods,” a 1946 short story written by A. E. van Vogt] Reference

From then on their numbers fell calamitously.    From Wordnik.com.  [When a Billion Chinese Jump] Reference

41 years after he totally and calamitously and obstinately blew Tet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PrairiePundit] Reference

It would end calamitously.    From Wordnik.com. Reference