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ruthless

A ruthless person tries to achieve their goals despite knowing that it will cause pain or damage. A ruthless action is carried out despite knowing that it will cause pain or damage.

ruthless

(= remorseless) without mercy or pity an act of ruthless ferocity a monster of remorseless cruelty

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Simple sentences

Time is ruthless.
Be ruthless.
She's ruthless.
Tom is ruthless.
I'm ruthless.
Tom is a ruthless businessman.
Tom was ruthless.
In the face of ruthless competition, our business failed to survive.
He's ruthless.
You got that right! This quiet little forest you chose to compose your doctorate is also the vacation home of a ruthless and power-hungry Satanist!

Movie subtitles

Politics is a ruthless business.
In the great Gold Rush, Alaska was the hope and dream of men, the ruthless siren of the Far North, beckoning thousands to her icy bosom. Beckoning thousands to her unknown regions.
Clever and ruthless.
Yeah, they're smart, that's because they're ruthless.
Attacked without a word of warning by a ruthless conqueror.
To soak it full, you'll do anything that's ruthless, selfish, dishonest.
Vivian is spoiled, exacting smart and ruthless.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
But in business, quite ruthless.
Business is a ruthless business.
You must be ruthless.
The confession of Peter Keating has made clear that Howard Roark is a ruthless egoist who has destroyed Cortlandt Homes for his own selfish motive.
That we follow your military examples. And strike a ruthless and crushing blow At the head and front of the trouble.
He's waged a vast, cruel and ruthless war against us.
Clever and ruthless. - Who is he?
But when the ruthless ambition of a man threatens to engulf the world. it becomes the solemn obligation of all free men. to affirm that the earth belongs not to any one man. but to all men.
Yeah, they're smart, because they're ruthless.
As the most ruthless killer in England you deserve some of the light.
Definitely, a female Moriarity clever, ruthless, and above all cautious.
The temptation of sudden wealth could. Could, could possibly turn one of these seemingly harmless men into a ruthless killer.
Cold, calculating, ruthless intelligence.
We're up against a clever and ruthless group to whom we are all well known.
If my assumptions are correct, this little scheme has behind it the most brilliant and ruthless intellect the world has ever known.
War-racked, battle-worn. a grim reminder of the power of destruction of a ruthless enemy.
He thinks fast. he's ruthless, lets nothing interfere.
Oh, yes, yes. In emergencies I can be absolutely ruthless.
Each one is a ruthless maniac.
A ruthless devouring army.
He has always been ruthless.
That's too ruthless.
They're ruthless.
This movie shows a violent and ruthless environment, unknown until now.
She was beautiful, she had brains. she was ruthless, and she never used the same poison twice, either.
When my father died. some ruthless relatives robbed my mother. of what little property she had, leaving us very poor.
Yuri is ruthless.
I know he's ruthless and won't want to share.

News and current affairs

Her poor timing made the initiative appear heartless, as thousands of civilians were being uprooted, killed, or maimed by Israel's efficient but ruthless artillery and air force.
Ruthless leaders mobilize disoriented followers.
But its second name is Israel, the only successful modern country in the Middle East, which is also highly militarized, an occupying power, and ruthless in defense of its interests.
The al-Saud will undoubtedly be ruthless in seeking out the individuals directly implicated in the terrorist bombings.
So ruthless pursuit of price stability actually harms economic growth and well being.
In conditions of chaos, which Egypt could face, the best-organized and most ruthless group often gets control of the government.
A ruthless program to absorb his political rivals on the right has helped Orban's FIDESZ party become nearly equal in size to his Socialist rivals on the left.
In other words, Bo bore all the hallmarks of a gangster boss: corrupt, ruthless towards his enemies, contemptuous of the law, and yet moralistic in his self-presentation.
Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way - a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human-rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.
The strategy is simple and ruthless.
Just as a ruthless Prime Minister Chirac sold a nuclear reactor to Saddam Hussein in the 1970's, so the President Chirac of today is being lured into doing big business with another aggressive dictatorship.
He is a ruthless operator who presents himself as the champion of the developing world, protecting the interests of Africans, Asians, Arabs, and South Americans against the arrogant West.
The third is less honorable, and likely to fail: it relies on the dangerously weak premise that the party in power's political adversaries will be more public-spirited and less ruthless when they return to government.
They are skilled but ruthless, lack humility and eschew reflection.
I have met with dozens of Sudanese politicians and diplomats, and I know that the regime in Khartoum is authoritarian, self-interested, and ruthless.
The blackout imposed on Chechnya prevents any precise assessment of the devastating effects of a ruthless conflict.
Four years ago this month, Zenawi's Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF) suffered its worst loss at the polls since the former guerrilla overthrew a ruthless, Soviet-backed regime in 1991.
Six decades of ruthless repression has failed to win China acceptance even in Tibet and Xinjiang, as the Tibetan and Uighur revolts of 2008 and 2009 attested.

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