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Debacular (adj) means relating to a debacle; disastrous and deeply embarrassing.

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Relating to a debacle; disastrous and deeply embarrassing.

"Now given over to yawning gaps in the courtship of debtors romantically linked to the annulment of fraudsters, the spectacular often has to fill in with the debacular." — M. F. Dail, Limbodeswill's Wain (2014)

"Nobody made serious complaint about the lamb trade but the sheep phase was debacular. Only an idiot or a charlatan would attempt anything of auguristic nature at this moment." — National Wool Grower, National Wool Growers Association - Authors & Publishers (1934)

"What with the cyanide and electrolytic methods of gold extraction, it is only to be wondered at that the decline in the value of this metal has not been more debacular and tragic than has been seen." — Miller Freeman, American Lumberman - Part 1 (1924)

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