Synonyms for ruthless
ˈruθ lɪsruth·less

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1. ruthless

   Synonyms:
   unpitying, unrelenting, truculent, unsparing

   Antonyms:
   tender, regretful, lenient, compassionate, forbearing, long-suffering

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1. pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpityingadjective

   without mercy or pity

   "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"

   Synonyms:
   unpitying, remorseless, pitiless, unkind

   Antonyms:
   merciful

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1. ruthlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   merciless, pitiless, cruel, uncompassionate, unpitying, unmerciful, relentless, unrelenting, inexorable, barbarous, fell, savage, ferocious, inhuman, hard-hearted

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1. ruthlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   pitiless, cruel, truculent, relentless, implacable, fell, hard-hearted

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1. List of paraphrases for "ruthless":

   merciless, unscrupulous, relentless, unforgiving, implacable, pitiless, callous, unmerciful, cruel, brutal, heartless, reckless, unrelenting, vicious, savage, stone-cold, cut-throat, wild, inexorable

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1. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized antisemitism.

2. The United:

   The American military has handed our ruthless enemy defeat after defeat, but it will go on for years, if not decades, before this curse has been eradicated.

3. Tim Kaine:

   A cruder imitation of Donald Trump who stokes white supremacy and brags about being' ruthless and vicious,' Corey Stewart would be an embarrassment for Virginia in the Republican Senate.

4. Donald Tusk:

   If someone says I will lend you money but please give it back to me in the future, that person is not a ruthless robber, and it's not true (that) debtors are always moral and creditors are always immoral.

5. Marco Rubio:

   He is reckless, he's ruthless, he has a penchant for escalation, for taking high risks, confrontational in his foreign policy approach and I think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with the United States.