as in mercilessness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruthlessness
Noun
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The whole movie is about the ways that cruelty and injustice become codified.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Matthew has been charged with first-degree murder, as well as related weapons possession and animal cruelty charges.—
Laura Barcella,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
26 Nov. 2024
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When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
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Gaiman's representatives have responded to some outlets, claiming the incidents were consensual and instances of practicing BDSM (bondage, discipline/dominance, submission/sadism and masochism).—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
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David Lynch’s cinematic masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the sadism and malevolence hiding behind the picket fences of middle America.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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This new process was driven by high-profile national incidents of police brutality, including the slaying of teenager Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer.—
Forrest Claypool,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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The mural near the White House went up in summer 2020 to protest police brutality and as a rebuke to President Trump in his first term.—
Cuneyt Dil,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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The media didn't talk about the inhumanity of it all, and didn't invoke fear of American life coming to a halt.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Casting Fernanda Torres as a woman who refuses to be broken by devastating loss and inhumanity, this stirring true story, set against the backdrop of dictatorship, provides a direct link to Central Station, which starred Torres’ mother, Fernanda Montenegro.—
Scott Feinberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Putin’s quasi-genocidal barbarities in Ukraine and Xi’s industrial-scale repression in Xinjiang threaten to restore a world of autocratic impunity and rampant atrocity.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Real-life inspired, set in early ‘90s Belfast, a coming-of-age tale in which a young British paratrooper has to choose between the ferocity of military life and the euphoria of the burgeoning rave scene which unites Catholic and Protestants teens.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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Those things should be attacked with the same ferocity as alcohol.—
Jessi Roti,
Bon Appétit,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Ruthlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruthlessness. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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