(disapproving) (of people or their behaviour) hard and cruel; determined to get what you want and not caring if you hurt other people:
a ruthless dictator * The way she behaved towards him was utterly ruthless. * He has a ruthless determination to succeed. * We'll have to be ruthless if we want to make this company more efficient.
ruthlessly adverb:
I have to be ruthlessly honest with you.
ruthlessness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for ruthless is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ruthless a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ruthless is tagged as adjective.
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