Cutthroat

//ˈkʌtθɹoʊt//

"Cutthroat" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Our company failed to survive against cutthroat competition.

Competition in the domestic market is cutthroat.

He is the most cutthroat person I know.

The academic environment at UC Berkeley is too cutthroat for me.

Andrew Neyman is a promising young drummer who enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by Terence Fletcher, a perfectionist music conductor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential talent.

Geopolitics is a cutthroat world. If you display weakness, you're done.

The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.

Children go through a phase of compound acquisition in which they invent cutthroats spontaneously before dropping the habit again.

He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner.

Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.

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More specifically, Scrabblers are diehard, competitive, and occasionally cutthroat players who treat the game like it's chess or baseball...

While these esports are often framed as battles of mental strategies and mechanical skills, how players juggle their hundreds, or thousands, of simultaneously ticking clocks and timers defines their ability to succeed in cutthroat competitions.

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