ruthful

adjective

Definition of ruthfulnext
1
as in troublesome

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2
as in pitying

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  1. troublesome
  2. poignant
  3. lenient
  4. moving
  5. merciful
  6. doleful
  7. tolerant
  8. affecting
Adjective
  • If not, look for Fred Warner to revert into early-season MVP mode as his troublesome ankle and steely mindset recharge over the bye.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But the Polaris Dawn mission — a five-day journey to orbit carried out by the private sector rather than NASA — sought to take that research further, hoping to unravel some of the most troublesome aspects of spaceflight.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of troublesome
Adjective
  • This story of a young boy confronting nature to save his village is both poignant and universal.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
  • For me, this idea to offer to the audience to use their imagination was poignant for my own story.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of poignant
Adjective
  • Californians have pushed back on the rise in crime, most notably by recalling, in 2022, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a left-wing prosecutor who favored a lenient approach to criem.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
  • In general, ancient Egypt had a more lenient perspective toward the legislative and legal position of women, but this was diminished in some capacity when the region became part of the Roman Empire in the first century B.C.E., Naether says.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of lenient
Adjective
  • Sheryl gets a teary good-bye scene with her granddaughters, but perhaps the most moving moment is when Kristen — who admits to how complicated this is given the current status of her relationship with her mother — brings David in to perform last rites if Sheryl wants them.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 July 2024
  • The very moving results brings to mind find-the-river classics like REM’s Automatic For the People.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of moving
Adjective
  • Discrete levels are filled with an array of obstacles and enemies, some of which culminate in gigantic bosses whose easygoing challenge offers a merciful break from the likes of Elden Ring.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Some are kept affordable by other government subsidies, by merciful landlords or by states, including California, Colorado and New York, that have worked to keep them low-cost by relying on several levers.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2024
Definition of merciful
Adjective
  • Self-contained in a suit and clad by ironic distance, the unnamed sort calls to mind all the doleful observers that have traipsed across the screen since il cinema went modern, highlighting a weakness of a film that could benefit from a touch more idiosyncrasy.
    Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
  • These scenes are very often fun, filthy, hot, and, frankly, a relief after so much doleful, droopy coupling.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of doleful
Adjective
  • My husband — a brooding New Yorker, polite and tolerant of much — broke on the seventh day of our family vacation.
    Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The poet should be tolerant, disinterested, clear-eyed about long-standing animosities but not constrained by them.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
Definition of tolerant
Adjective
  • Yet, the hater was at his most affecting when confronted with obsessive love, a feeling that commingles warmth with disdain.
    Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Indeed, among the movie’s more affecting scenes are those in which Fegan’s victims are clearly moved to meet the real Tegan, despite — or perhaps because of — the humiliating experiences that (sort of) involved her.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of affecting
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