Ruin in english
Mean
pronunciation: min part of speech: verb, adjective, noun
pronunciation: min part of speech: verb, adjective, noun
In gestures
ruin = stingy ; tight-fisted ; miser ; skinflint ; penny-pinching ; tightwad ; despicable ; mean ; dastardly ; piker ; mingy ; base ; scummy ; scurvy.
Example: All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.Example: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.Example: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.Example: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Example: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Example: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Example: Gestation, menstruation, & pregnancy were often considered shameful and despicable.Example: Whereas in most European countries during this period welfare provision continued to develop, in Australia it languished at a level which, with the exception of Japan, was the meanest of the developed countries.Example: A dastardly livery driver raped a 30-year-old woman passenger on Jan. 31, cops said.Example: For pikers like me it's a tremendous comfort to know that at this moment, counting what I owe, I have more money than Donald Trump.Example: I bought a few random issues just because I felt bad leaving such a mingy store empty handed, but I definitely will not be going back.Example: Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.Example: I can understand why they would do this from a business perspective, but it's still a scummy.Example: Never have such a scurvy bunch of deceptive scoundrels, scumbags and utter nutters had so much control over our destiny.more:
» acto ruin = despicable act .
Example: This week has had so many despicable acts it made a very cynical person like me even more so.» cometer un acto ruin = commit + a despicable act .
Example: I think today's society seems to always search for an excuse when some people commit despicable acts.