Which preposition to use with ruinous
Say that it is bad for the constitution, ruinous to the health; be it so.
Hence the whiteness produced by acid tooth-powders and washes is not less deceitful than ruinous in its consequences.
The two castles, black and ruinous as the rocks about them, were still distinguishable from these by something more insecure and fantastic in the outline, something that the last storm had left imminent and the next would demolish entirely.
Hence there have been found in history few conquests more ruinous than that of the Saxons; and few revolutions more violent than that which they introduced.
The most ruinous of all is the situation of Poland, whose finance is certainly not better regulated than that of the Bolsheviks of Moscow, to judge from the course of the Polish mark and the Russian rouble if anyone gets the idea of buying them on an international market.
But still more ruinous for them would be the displeasure of an irresistible conqueror, who, with a formidable army, was already before their gates, and who might punish their opposition by the ruin of their commerce and prosperity.
I always fancy that it is bringing with it something beside the tempest,that there is something ruinous behind it.