as in merciless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
an office supervisor with a ruthless disregard for others' feelings
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Recent Examples of ruthless
The machine that usually hums with ruthless efficiency looked broken, battered, and completely devoid of answers.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
That was the case with the tall and lean Ebrahim Azizi, who appears as Eghbal, the man the group believes was their ruthless captor.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
No sympathy should be wasted on Maduro, the ruthless dictator who was arrested with his wife and brought to New York to stand trial.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
Maduro is a thug, a ruthless dictator who deserves not to be president of his country.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
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With a merciless 56-22 thumping of Oregon in the Peach Bowl, the Hoosiers punched their ticket to their first national championship game appearance in program history.—
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All the while, the president, his top advisers, and his public-affairs offices have pumped out rhetoric and imagery that celebrates the merciless, military-style pursuit of deportations.—
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Without prosecutors empowered to bring charges against wrongdoers, judges willing to strike down overreach, legislators daring enough to demand investigations and change laws, and citizens outraged enough to protest, any revelations by journalists will fall on stony ground.—
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After that historic journey, NASA charted a new course toward Apophis, a stony metal-rich NEA that offers a sharp scientific contrast to Bennu's carbon-rich composition (and was once thought to pose a serious impact risk to Earth).—
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“Ruthless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruthless. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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