ruthlessness

noun

Definition of ruthlessnessnext
as in mercilessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruthlessness
  1. cruelty
  2. savagery
  3. sadism
  4. brutality
  5. inhumanity
  6. barbarity
  7. ferocity
Noun
  • By the time this piece comes out, Moo Deng’s appearance on Weekend Update will have been overshadowed by Yang kissing Ariana Grande in a skit about family charades gone awry and Mariah Carey protesting the cruelty of overhead lighting on Las Culturistas.
    Sarah Burke, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Wilder’s film, for all its offbeat humor and quotable zingers, was always about the ugliness of Hollywood and the monstrous cruelty of an industry that drains its players like a vampire does its victims.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of savagery
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Bill Moseley enters the franchise as Chop-Top, a new family member who was apparently in Vietnam during the events of the first film and has returned with a metal plate in his head and a penchant for grating sadism.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Popular on Variety But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of sadism
Noun
  • The November election will shape how Phoenix manages the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation that found routine brutality and discrimination in the city and police department's practices.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Moore and her costar Margaret Qualley have been lauded for their fearless commitment to the violence and brutality required by their parts, but also for their raw, emotional vulnerability.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of brutality
Noun
  • Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Carreira is not interested in vilifying individuals but in teasing out the inhumanity of working conditions that grind people down little by little.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
Definition of inhumanity
Noun
  • In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Italy’s solitary-confinement policy—a regulation called carcere duro, or hard prison—is controversial in northern Europe, where it is seen as an example of southern barbarity.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • Robert Pattinson's Possession remake director teases 'viciously sharp, crazy, insane' film with 'teeth and ferocity' If thousands — or perhaps even millions— end up inheriting the curse from Skye, what does that mean for a third film?
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Virtually certain to win his second straight Most Valuable Player award (and third overall), Ohtani had not been hitting with his usual frequency or ferocity in the playoffs.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of ferocity
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