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US
/ˈɹuθɫəsnəs/
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[ UK /ɹˈuːθləsnəs/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈuːθləsnəs/ ]
NOUN
- mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity
- feelings of extreme heartlessness
How To Use ruthlessness In A Sentence
- When television replays and closeups became possible, all this human frailty and professional ruthlessness became multiplied many times. Times, Sunday Times
- If ruthlessness is allowed to triumph on the island, it will spawn imitations elsewhere.
- The terror he unleashed in the name of Crip was widespread, but I cannot detail his ruthlessness lest some fool try to duplicate his misdeeds. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
- Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority.
- Anyone who offered any resistance was brutally dealt with, and his son would soon show the same ruthlessness.
- Oh, and a nuanced take on bringing involute cunning to a ruthlessness contest. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
- Those who excel in this struggle distinguish themselves through nothing more exotic than boundless cunning and ruthlessness.
- The showdown was fierce as both of them employed the basic rules of the trade: ruthlessness, mercilessness, and pitilessness.
- Aesthetically pleasing it wasn't, but his goal did suggest a quickness of mind and, just as important, a ruthlessness that is engrained in all great strikers.
- We think of the fecundity in artifice with which those of better brain,. no matter how they were handicapped by law, would still outwit those of poorer brain, showing an intensified bitterness born of the class struggle in whose ruthlessness they had been bidden to believe. The Present Challenge to British Imperialism