adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ruthless determination (= that involves not caring about hurting other people )
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the ruthless determination of his business career
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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The financial system was given more freedom than before, but that made it an even more ruthless broadcaster of economic frailties.
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Aggressive and competitive women, unconcerned with motherhood, produce more ruthless men-and a society so competitive that it disintegrates.
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What if he had become much more ruthless in that time?
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In consequence we must grow harder, more ruthless than we were in the days of ease.
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Ireland is more ruthless still in targeting public health care.
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A more ruthless woman would have sorted William out long ago.
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A more ruthless woman would have let the whole place slide into chaos until he learned to do things for himself.
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Darwin's view was simpler and more ruthless .
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The firm reacted to their failure to get membership by hard selling in its most ruthless way.
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The guys left behind are just the most ruthless of the bunch.
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The elaborate public displays of those royal families had always camouflaged the most ruthless power struggles.
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The ultimate evolutionary victory, on the theistic hypothesis, does not go to the most ruthless exterminators and most fecund replicators.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a ruthless and pitiless dictator
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a ruthless criminal
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Father could be quite ruthless about getting his own way.
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the ruthless dictator, Joseph Stalin
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These men are ruthless terrorists and will kill anyone who tries to stop them.
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You could see the cold, ruthless look in her eyes.
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You should be careful of Ian - he can be pretty ruthless if anyone gets in his way.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Allowed to surface without any control, these can be dangerous and ruthless .
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And it was hard to reconcile his soft-spoken good manners with the ruthless determination of his business career.
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Ask a friend to observe your performance and to report to you on it with ruthless candour.
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But I was the one who was being ruthless .
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Its high sensitivity to the issue of advertising dollars has made the Times ruthless in their pursuit.
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On L. A. Law itself, ruthless Roz resigned from the firm.
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President Banda's one-party government has a ruthless record, especially when dealing with political opponents.
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The elaborate public displays of those royal families had always camouflaged the most ruthless power struggles.