How to Use ruthless in a Sentence
ruthless
adjective- The journalist was ruthless in his criticism.
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This isn’t the first time the ruthless Feyd has been brought to the big screen.
— Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024 -
The Celtics' fans are right up there as the most ruthless in the league.
— Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2022 -
When times get tough, Levi asks for help from a ruthless loan shark.
— Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022 -
The court of public opinion is a ruthless and volatile beast.
— Naveen Kumar, Town & Country, 12 July 2022 -
The story’s ruthless kicker about the show the next night at the Hollywood Bowl?
— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Laser-focus, a ruthless eye for the nonessential and cutting out the fluff in favour of the substance.
— Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Brolin stars as the ruthless producer of the game show, while O’Brian will play one of the contestants on the show.
— Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024 -
The Dons operate out of the Wing T and Doyle’s calling card is a ruthless running game.
— Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023 -
The school, Lavin concedes, is not currently equipped to compete in the ruthless world of NIL, and maybe shouldn’t try.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023 -
Green Bay’s rushing attack was ruthless on the day, picking up 261 yards on the ground.
— Sam Joseph, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024 -
One of Gotham's most ruthless villains is getting his time to shine.
— Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Putin point-blank as a ruthless dictator who the world must unite to defeat.
— Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022 -
After all, a world of magic and dragons is a ruthless one.
— Milan Polk, Men's Health, 29 Sep. 2022 -
Devoting one's entire life to the game, and for it to suddenly be gone, can be ruthless to the soul.
— Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022 -
As her success and power grow, so too does her ruthless rule.
— Laura Zornosa, TIME, 26 Jan. 2024 -
Those small kindnesses mean so much in such a ruthless game.
— Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022 -
The world must unite to stop this ruthless dictator – before it’s too late.
— Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2022 -
Zelensky, 44, appeared to be no match for the ruthless Putin.
— Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022 -
Meanwhile, among city residents the NOPD was known to be ruthless.
— Longreads, 2 May 2024 -
Mendelsohn is the moral and creative hero, but the striving, anything-to-survive Binoche gives the series a ruthless spark.
— Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024 -
The series was said to follow two ruthless step siblings who would go to great lengths to stay on top of the social pyramid.
— Breanna Bell, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023 -
But the Bruins’ ruthless offensive pace and efficiency left the hosts in the dust from there.
— Scott Sepich, oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023 -
On Saturday, Horford brushed aside the slow start in front of a ruthless crowd and had one of his finest moments of this season.
— Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023 -
By the end of the first episode, Marissa is gone and Dre has taken a sharp left turn toward life as a ruthless serial killer.
— Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023 -
The rest of that transition need not be as ruthless as the beginning, but MBS shows no sign of letting up.
— Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022 -
The wealthy and the beautiful that the first two-thirds of the film centers on are no less ruthless and transactional than Abigail.
— Clarissa Cruz, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022 -
However, my client was stuck with the image of a turnaround leader—and a ruthless one.
— Katrina Burrus, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 -
When a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord attacks seeking vengeance for the death of his father, Helm’s daughter Héra must summon the will to lead the resistance or face total destruction.
— Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2024 -
Tashi Duncan — the complicated, messy, yet consistent and clear-eyed, cutthroat, ruthless athlete — is the perfect role to show us what Zendaya is capable of.
— Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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