disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
great disaster; horrible tragedy; catastrophe; catastrophic event; catastrophic incident; dire calamity
ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat
disaster; tragedy; tragic incident; horrible accident
miserable; pitiful; tragic; painstaking
calamity; disaster; catastrophe
heavy damage; havoc; ravages
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
horrible; cruel; atrocious
to present a very terrible (miserable) sight
slump; sudden fall of market price
heartbreaking story; tragic tale
taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something
wretched state; pitiable condition
terrible worry; extreme anxiety
atrocity; cruelty; brutality