ruthless

His stories were constructed with ruthless narrative efficiency.
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To be fair, he might not have known that Pinochet was a ruthless dictator.
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So it continues to make local authorities and their ruthless cronies uneasy.
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I was not prepared for the staggered, ruthless falling apart of one of the people I love most in the world.
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Pablo Escobar is one of the most ruthless people in history.
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Hes sworn to get you, Henderson, and hes absolutely reckless and ruthless, as you know.
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It had been a great stage-coaching town in the great stage-coaching times, and the ruthless railways had killed and buried it.
The Uncommercial Traveller|Charles Dickens
It is ruthless, insistent, and deep with the violence of outraged might.
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The old man saw it, but worldly philosophy made him ruthless.
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And we noted on one of the two ancient town crosses the rudely carved figure of a boar, the emblem of this ruthless king.
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British Dictionary definitions for ruthless

ruthless

/ (ˈruːθlɪs) /

adjective

feeling or showing no mercy; hardhearted

Derived forms of ruthless

ruthlessly, adverbruthlessness, noun

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ruthless

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