as in ruthless
not guided by or showing a concern for what is right
cutthroat business practices intended to drive competitors out of business
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as in assassin
a person who kills another person
while traveling the ancient Silk Road, traders were constant prey to cutthroats and thieves
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Recent Examples of cutthroat
Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
Maybe from the very beginning, the game was too cutthroat, too tawdry, too violent.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
John Kang, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
The play is set in a Chicago real estate office, where four cutthroat salespeople compete against each other to sell properties.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
The car-wash business is cutthroat and competitive, and so is the business of entertaining the world.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
Maybe from the very beginning, the game was too cutthroat, too tawdry, too violent.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
Noun
Other players in the cutthroat space include billionaire Bom Kim’s Coupang, PDD Holdings’ Temu and Alibaba’s AliExpress.
—John Kang, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
The play is set in a Chicago real estate office, where four cutthroat salespeople compete against each other to sell properties.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutthroat
Adjective
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The lawyer who normally practices in New York is gregarious, quick with a joke and always happy to talk to the media, but can be ruthless in cross-examination.—
Andrew Dalton,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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City are going through some stuff, Arsenal aren’t ruthless enough, Chelsea are wobbling, teams will figure out how to beat Nottingham Forest soon enough, Newcastle are the form team now but are an Alexander Isak injury away from trouble.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Peter and Rose are then tossed into a world of conspiracy involving White House officials, a metro bombing, assassins, the vice president's daughter, and Peter's own father — who, according to official record, was a traitor to his country.—
Ashley Boucher,
EW.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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The assassins were working for Gordon Wick (Ben Cotton), the real culprit behind the DC Metro bombing along with Vice President Redfield (Christopher Shyer).—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The trial culminated in the dramatic display of her thong before the jury, paired with descriptions of her as manipulative and immoral.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
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Avoiding trial also uses fewer government resources and spares the victims' families from having to re-live the horror in court – or seeing the murderers continue to smirk and joke around.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Israel will try to save the life of Kfir Bibas— the red-haired baby who has spent most of his life in captivity—in exchange for unrepentant murderers.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Many such stories also contain the suggestion, sometimes explicit, that the old civilization was unbearably corrupt and that its violent collapse was overdue.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Hunter Biden had been the point man in the decades-long Biden family business of selling access to his father and his political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American foreign regimes, including the Chinese Communist Party.—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Two brothers who were convicted in the 1991 rape and murder of a tourist in Hawaii filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the police had framed them and then bungled an investigation that could have brought the true killer to justice.—
Simon J. Levien,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The real killer, Rudy Guede, got off with a light sentence.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For an unscrupulous swindler that's a nice set of skills to have, but with the Empire in control for over 20 years, a Force-sensitive pirate's life wasn't a smooth ride.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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Gracey credits Williams for not asking for anything to be cut from the film, even the more unscrupulous parts of his story.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Objective voters who watched the recent documentary about Lev Parnas, once a Trump ally, should fear a redux of a Cabinet running the government for an angry, unhinged, unprincipled man.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Oct. 2024
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All of this coincided with a period of unprincipled practices in the media.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
20 Nov. 2024
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