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
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Nov. 2024
Contributor The investment world can be very cutthroat, and numerous businesses are competing to receive valuable capital investments that will allow the founders to grow their companies or make their exit.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
Survivor is the most realest, cutthroat show out there!
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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The Major League Baseball Players’ Association petitioned a New York trial court last week to confirm an arbitration award against Rimas Sports executives in a move that draws attention to the competitive, if not cutthroat, world of player agents.
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Valentine’s Day might be the most cutthroat, derided celebration on the planet.
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Pierce Brosnan's patriarch is ruthless, but is his wife actually pulling the strings?—
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Successful entrepreneurs are ruthless with time and priorities Successful entrepreneurs are ruthless with their time and fiercely protective of their focus.—
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This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a celestial path that could, one day, intersect with ours.—
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Police cars arrived within minutes and the assassin was arrested.—
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Trump’s contrived veneer is being ripped away to reveal an immoral, mendacious, transactional opportunist, without a shred of loyalty to anyone or anything but himself.—
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Before these studies, the cause of TB was presumed to be primarily constitutional, by either an inherent predisposition or from unhealthy or immoral lifestyles.—
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There will also not be a murderer found until the show’s conclusion, but don’t ask anyone who’s seen the beloved whodunit.—
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More often, alleged female murderers are reviled or belittled.—
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Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.—
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The Filipino-language thriller follows Dahlia, a disillusioned police aide who steals money from the safe of her corrupt police chief boss, distributing it to slum dwellers whose homes were destroyed.—
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Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors A guy known for delivering killer monologues is joining the long list of suspects at the Arconia.—
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Materials for all seasons at the world’s grandest art fair, plus Cleopatra and a killer ship model The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht in the Netherlands is the art extravaganza of the year.—
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Now, there are some dealers out there who are just unscrupulous, and there are some dealers out there who just wanna maximize the worth of their guitars.—
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Cloud Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Producers: Yumi Arakawa, Yuki Nishimiya, Nobuhiro Iizuka, Japan 2024 An unscrupulous online resellerʼs misdeeds catch up with him in mysterious and frightening ways in horror maestro Kiyoshi Kurosawaʼs dark tale.—
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The notorious Sackler family, opioid pushers responsible for countless cases of addiction and death, can’t seem to settle their legal problems without turning to some kind of unprincipled maneuver.—
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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.—
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“Cutthroat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutthroat. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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