as in mercilessness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruthlessness
Noun
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He is also charged with third- and fourth-degree weapons charges related to possession of a golf club and knife, as well as animal cruelty related to the death of a family cat.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
25 Feb. 2025 -
Ex-College Soccer Player Accused of Killing Fellow Athlete Brother, Cat Using Knife, Golf Club: Prosecutors He was also charged with animal cruelty for allegedly killing a cat who lived in the apartment.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
26 Nov. 2024
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When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
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Gaiman's representatives have responded to some outlets, claiming the incidents were consensual and instances of practicing BDSM (bondage, discipline/dominance, submission/sadism and masochism).—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
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David Lynch’s cinematic masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the sadism and malevolence hiding behind the picket fences of middle America.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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Spanning from the 2014 Maidan Revolution to spring 2024, their story blends the glamour of drag with the brutality of war.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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In 2016, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality of Black men and, with Trump leading the discourse against him, never played in the league again.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC News,
7 Feb. 2025
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Presenting inhumanity in a contemporary style that draws us in, Shahn employed color and line to summon the viewer’s full attention.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
6 Jan. 2024
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This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.—
Becca Rothfeld,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
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The Russian president also encouraged acts of barbarity against his critics.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2022
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Angle was just too good, too fast, and too pre-equipped to allow Lesnar to gain a real advantage, meaning that Lesnar had to rely on his powerhouse barbarity to come out on top.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2024
Noun
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And on the basketball court? Count on the muscular 6-4, 195-pound senior forward to bring the juice and dunk with ferocity for the Foxes, according to freshman guard Braydon Porter.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
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And in this painting, the marbled feel of the satellites lends a kind of molten ferocity—this was a race, after all.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Ruthlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruthlessness. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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