Synonyms for calamities
calami·ties

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1. List of paraphrases for "calamities":

   disasters, catastrophes, scourges

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1. Glenn Nelson:

   We're blocking BIPOC communities from being involved in the conservation movement and BIPOC communities are the ones who experience the impact of environmental calamities first, and disproportionately, we're essentially excluding them from their own rescue in a way.

2. Bishnupada Sethi:

   Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burned and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.

3. Goldsmith:

   While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.

4. Ambrose Bierce:

   Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

5. Ambrose Bierce:

   Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.