unmitigated disaster

collocation in English

meaningsofunmitigatedanddisaster

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unmitigated
adjective[usually before noun]
uk
/ʌnˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tɪd/us
/ʌnˈmɪt̬.ə.ɡeɪ.t̬ɪd/
complete, often describing something bad or unsuccessful that has no good or ...
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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us
/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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(Definition ofunmitigatedanddisasterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Apart for some astonishingly deft conducting, the evening was anunmitigateddisaster, the applause mere politeness.
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The enterprise was anunmitigateddisaster.
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We have heard much about those things, both of which have been anunmitigateddisaster.
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What anunmitigateddisastershe is proving to be.
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I am sure that none of them would deny that the destruction of the seed-corn would be nothing short ofunmitigateddisaster.
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Nationalisation of the railways has not worked; it has been anunmitigateddisaster.
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It would be anunmitigateddisasterin the salmon industry ifgyrodactylus salariscame anywhere near us.
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If that commitment had been implemented, it would have been anunmitigateddisasterfor home buyers.
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I believe to go down that road would be a policy ofunmitigateddisasterfor any social form.
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Their view is that it has been anunmitigateddisaster.
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Will the falling off of the population be such anunmitigateddisaster?
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Such a policy would be anunmitigateddisasterfor the industry, the workers, the shareholders, the export effort and the country as a whole.
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However, we cannot escape the fact that the past four weeks have been anunmitigateddisaster.
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The rest of the news, however, seems to be anunmitigateddisaster.
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The whole thing has been anunmitigateddisasterfrom beginning to end.
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I am not one of those who think that the common agricultural policy has been anunmitigateddisaster.
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First, local loop unbundling, if not anunmitigateddisaster, has been somewhat of a mess to date.
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The suppression of a newspaper is not anunmitigateddisaster, provided it is not suppressed for too long.
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Many people during this debate have said that it is anunmitigateddisaster, that it has operated unfairly, and so on.
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It seemed to me to be anunmitigateddisaster.
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