| Solution | Length | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 letters | ||
| sad | 3 | |
| 4 letters | ||
| ones | 4 | |
| dire | 4 | |
| evil | 4 | |
| 5 letters | ||
| risky | 5 | |
| fatal | 5 | |
| DIRER | 5 | |
| 6 letters | ||
| tragic | 6 | |
| 7 letters | ||
| spastic | 7 | |
| fatally | 7 | |
| unhappy | 7 | |
| wasting | 7 | |
| hapless | 7 | |
| ruinous | 7 | |
| unlucky | 7 | |
| 8 letters | ||
| nosedive | 8 | |
| wasteful | 8 | |
| illfated | 8 | |
| sinister | 8 | |
| suicidal | 8 | |
| 9 letters | ||
| SPASMODIC | 9 | |
| RUINOUSLY | 9 | |
| troublous | 9 | |
| withering | 9 | |
| 10 letters | ||
| subversive | 10 | |
| illstarred | 10 | |
| calamitous | 10 | |
| ill-omened | 10 | |
| lamentable | 10 | |
| 11 letters | ||
| destructive | 11 | |
| DEVASTATING | 11 | |
| UNFORTUNATE | 11 | |
| 12 letters | ||
| inauspicious | 12 | |
| catastrophic | 12 | |
| 13 letters | ||
| subversionary | 13 | |
| 16 letters | ||
| self-destructive | 16 | |
| 17 letters | ||
| CALAMITYJANEFONDA | 17 | |