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Ruthlessness   /rˈuθləsnəs/   Listen
Ruthlessness

noun
1.
Mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity.  Synonym: pitilessness.
2.
Feelings of extreme heartlessness.  Synonyms: cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness.






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"Ruthlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the holy place. Down the length of the church she dragged her lover's corpse, and out into the graveyard, tearing open his body and plucking his heart therefrom with a fell purpose that never wavered. With a shriek she flung it on the ground and trampled upon it in a ruthlessness of hate terrible ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

... we have been imagining fit, economic fear and most economic hope will be alike removed out of life. No one will be haunted by the dread of poverty or driven into ruthlessness by the hope of wealth. There will not be the distinction of social classes which now plays such an immense part in life. The unsuccessful professional man will not live in terror lest his children should sink in the ...
— Proposed Roads To Freedom • Bertrand Russell

... nation which he governed seemed to many in his time to introduce a cold and ruthless element into politics, which seemed colder and more ruthless when it appeared in the less kindly character of his disciple Lord Randolph Churchill. But the same ruthlessness is often found now, and may perhaps be more often found in the future, whenever any one is sufficiently concentrated on some political end to break through all intellectual or ethical conventions that stand in ...
— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas

... the lines sullenly, a dull resentment and horror in her heart. He would subdue her as easily as he had the half-broken colts, sometimes bullying, sometimes mocking, sometimes making love to her with barbaric ardor. There were times when his strength and ruthlessness had fascinated June, but just now she felt only horror weighted by a dull, ...
— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine



Words linked to "Ruthlessness" :   mercilessness, unmercifulness, heartlessness, pitilessness, ruthless, coldheartedness, hardheartedness



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