ruthless

After the war, Kuwait demanded that Saddam Hussein — known as a ruthless tyrant who had gassed his own people — pay back his war debt.

His stories were constructed with ruthless narrative efficiency.

To be fair, he might not have known that Pinochet was a ruthless dictator.

Her remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have drawn some ruthless criticism from Jews around the world.

So it continues to make local authorities and their ruthless cronies uneasy.

I was not prepared for the staggered, ruthless falling apart of one of the people I love most in the world.

This demand was made with scornful seriousness; with a ruthless application to the feelings of a son.

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath.

This ruthless destruction of the forest brings down upon Calendau the anger of his lady; he has dishonored the noble mountain.

There was not one nook or cranny into which that ruthless self-knowledge could not throw its cruel glare.

The little camp had ceased to exist; the great, ruthless, calm forest had reclaimed its own.