Ruthless
['ruːθlɪs] or ['rʊθləs]
Definition
(a.) Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.
Typist: Lucinda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Merciless, pitiless, cruel, uncompassionate, unpitying, unmerciful, relentless, unrelenting, inexorable, barbarous, fell, savage, ferocious, inhuman, hard-hearted.
Editor: Patrick
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unpitying, unrelenting, truculent, unsparing
ANT:Tender, regretful, lenient, compassionate, forbearing, long-suffering
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Examples
- It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the fifth century the great civilization of Rome fell under the ruthless attack of the northern barbarian. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Emanuel actually laughed in his face, and with the ruthless triumph of the assured conqueror, he drew his ward nearer to him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I denounced myself as a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The imagination is more vivid: the horror of capitalism is not alone in the poverty and suffering it entails, but in its ruthless denial of life to millions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With Edison in this introduction of his lighting system the method was ruthless, but not reckless. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I rose up suddenly, terror-struck at the solitude which so ruthless a judge haunted,--at the silence which so awful a voice filled. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They had to be bold and ruthless. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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