as in ruthless
not guided by or showing a concern for what is right
cutthroat business practices intended to drive competitors out of business
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as in assassin
a person who kills another person
while traveling the ancient Silk Road, traders were constant prey to cutthroats and thieves
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Recent Examples of cutthroat
Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
Maybe from the very beginning, the game was too cutthroat, too tawdry, too violent.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
Challenges range from circus makeup to runway looks, and as with Baking Show, the vibe skews more easygoing than cutthroat.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
The car-wash business is cutthroat and competitive, and so is the business of entertaining the world.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
Maybe from the very beginning, the game was too cutthroat, too tawdry, too violent.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
Noun
David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross is set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
Challenges range from circus makeup to runway looks, and as with Baking Show, the vibe skews more easygoing than cutthroat.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutthroat
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The lawyer who normally practices in New York is gregarious, quick with a joke and always happy to talk to the media, but can be ruthless in cross-examination.Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
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City are going through some stuff, Arsenal aren’t ruthless enough, Chelsea are wobbling, teams will figure out how to beat Nottingham Forest soon enough, Newcastle are the form team now but are an Alexander Isak injury away from trouble.Carl Anka, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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The actor and martial arts master plays Caine, a blind assassin who uses advanced hearing to beat-up bad guys in creative and brutal ways, as well as - what else? - a cane.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Having said that, Shinobi already means assassin so the name is a bit redundant.Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.NBC News, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024
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Last week’s interview saw CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil speak with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book The Message, which passionately argues that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is immoral and should be condemned.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
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Avoiding trial also uses fewer government resources and spares the victims' families from having to re-live the horror in court – or seeing the murderers continue to smirk and joke around.Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
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Israel will try to save the life of Kfir Bibas— the red-haired baby who has spent most of his life in captivity—in exchange for unrepentant murderers.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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The essential modern text is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that equates money with speech, resulting in an ever more corrupt system of campaign finance.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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The cases also highlighted a broken system of police discipline that allegedly protected corrupt officers and punished those who tried to expose the corruption.Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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The date was January 11, 1972, and Darren McGavin debuted as Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter who, in this instance, suspected that a serial killer in the Las Vegas area was actually a vampire.Marc Berman, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Did the killer intentionally select his targets? Related Stories Hoda Kotb’s Today Farewell Features Reunion With Kathie Lee Gifford, Tributes by Jamie Lee Curtis and Oprah Winfrey — Watch The Traitors Season 3 Premiere Recap: Which Reality TV Legends Were Chosen to Wear the Game’s Creepy Cloaks?Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, unscrupulous vendors avoid inspections and zoning laws, often preparing food in unsanitary apartments or closed restaurants.John Murn, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
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Some unscrupulous authors are using artificial intelligence to game the system, Heffner says.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2024
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Objective voters who watched the recent documentary about Lev Parnas, once a Trump ally, should fear a redux of a Cabinet running the government for an angry, unhinged, unprincipled man.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
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All of this coincided with a period of unprincipled practices in the media.Meg Walters, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Cutthroat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutthroat. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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