单词 | ruthless |
释义 | ruthless (once / 798 pages) adj Ruthless means showing no mercy or compassion. If you really want to cut down on the clutter in your apartment, you can't be sentimental about keepsakes. You have to be ruthless and throw out everything that's not absolutely essential. If you're ruthless, you're the polar opposite of Mother Theresa. You get called heartless and cold-blooded. That's one of the reasons the word crops up so often to describe dictators and tyrants, though it can also apply to other personality types — like corporate raiders and colleagues so success-driven that they'll gladly steamroll anyone to get ahead. It finds its way into milder contexts, too: Just be ruthless and rip off the Band-Aid already! WORD FAMILYruthless: ruthlessly, ruthlessness+/ruth: ruthful, ruthless/ruthful: ruthfully, ruthfulness USAGE EXAMPLES"Shake with your right hand, but hold a rock with your left," says Frank Underwood, the ruthless US president in the TV series. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) "This was another chapter in the silent and ruthless war of drug trafficking," state public security secretary, Sergio Fontes, told journalists. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) "This was another chapter in the silent and ruthless war of drug trafficking," he said. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) adj without mercy or pity an act of ruthless ferocity Syn pitiless, remorseless, unpitying merciless, unmerciful having or showing no mercy |
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