Those guys are ruthless, covering up their tracks like that after all their wrongdoing.
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Ruthless
//ˈɹuːθləs//
Synonyms for "ruthless" (108 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (54)
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Adjective(1 words)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 47 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄνοικτος adj (without pity or compassion)
Arabic
1 entries- قَاسٍ adj (without pity or compassion)
Armenian
2 entries- անգութ adj (without pity or compassion)
- դաժան adj (without pity or compassion)
Basque
1 entries- errukigabe adj (without pity or compassion)
Belarusian
2 entries- бязжа́ласлівы adj (without pity or compassion)
- бязлі́тасны adj (without pity or compassion)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безми́лостен adj (without pity or compassion)
- безскру́пулен adj (without pity or compassion)
Catalan
1 entries- despietat adj (without pity or compassion)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 殘忍 /残忍 adj (without pity or compassion)
- 無情 /无情 adj (without pity or compassion)
Czech
2 entries- bezohledný adj (without pity or compassion)
- nemilosrdný adj (without pity or compassion)
Danish
2 entries- skånselløs adj (without pity or compassion)
- skånselsløs adj (without pity or compassion)
Dutch
2 entries- meedogenloos adj (without pity or compassion)
- onbarmhartig adj (without pity or compassion)
Esperanto
1 entries- senkompata adj (without pity or compassion)
Finnish
2 entries- armoton adj (without pity or compassion)
- säälimätön adj (without pity or compassion)
French
1 entries- impitoyable adj (without pity or compassion)
Galician
1 entries- desapiadado adj (without pity or compassion)
Georgian
2 entries- ულმობელი adj (without pity or compassion)
- შეუბრალებელი adj (without pity or compassion)
German
3 entries- gnadenlos adj (without pity or compassion)
- ruchlos adj (without pity or compassion)
- unbarmherzig adj (without pity or compassion)
Greek
1 entries- αδίστακτος adj (without pity or compassion)
Hindi
3 entries- क्रूर adj (without pity or compassion)
- निर्दयी adj (without pity or compassion)
- निष्ठुर adj (without pity or compassion)
Hungarian
1 entries- könyörtelen adj (without pity or compassion)
Italian
2 entries- crudele adj (without pity or compassion)
- spietato adj (without pity or compassion)
Japanese
3 entries- 残酷な adj (without pity or compassion)
- 無情な adj (without pity or compassion)
- 無慈悲な adj (without pity or compassion)
Kazakh
1 entries- мейірімсіз adj (without pity or compassion)
Khmer
1 entries- គ្មានមេត្តា adj (without pity or compassion)
Korean
1 entries- 무자비하다 adj (without pity or compassion)
Latin
1 entries- crūdēlis adj (without pity or compassion)
Lithuanian
1 entries- negailestingas adj (without pity or compassion)
Macedonian
2 entries- безмилосен adj (without pity or compassion)
- немилосрден adj (without pity or compassion)
Mongolian
1 entries- харгис хэрцгий adj (without pity or compassion)
Māori
1 entries- ngākau whakawiri adj (without pity or compassion)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- hensynsløs adj (without pity or compassion)
- ubarmhjertig adj (without pity or compassion)
Occitan
1 entries- despietadós adj (without pity or compassion)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دینسز adj (without pity or compassion)
Polish
2 entries- bezpardonowy adj (without pity or compassion)
- bezwzględny adj (without pity or compassion)
Portuguese
1 entries- impiedoso adj (without pity or compassion)
Romanian
1 entries- nemilos adj (without pity or compassion)
Russian
3 entries- безжа́лостный adj (without pity or compassion)
- беспоща́дный adj (without pity or compassion)
- жесто́кий adj (without pity or compassion)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- не̏милосрдан adj (without pity or compassion)
Shor
1 entries- ачынмас adj (without pity or compassion)
Slovak
2 entries- bezohľadný adj (without pity or compassion)
- nemilosrdný adj (without pity or compassion)
Slovene
2 entries- neusmiljen adj (without pity or compassion)
- trdosrčen adj (without pity or compassion)
Spanish
4 entries- despiadado adj (without pity or compassion)
- firme adj (without pity or compassion)
- implacable adj (without pity or compassion)
- inflexible adj (without pity or compassion)
Swedish
3 entries- hänsynslös adj (without pity or compassion)
- obarmhärtig adj (without pity or compassion)
- skoningslös adj (without pity or compassion)
Thai
1 entries- เหี้ยม adj (without pity or compassion)
Turkish
1 entries- acımasız adj (without pity or compassion)
Ukrainian
3 entries- безжа́льний adj (without pity or compassion)
- безжа́лісний adj (without pity or compassion)
- безпоща́дний adj (without pity or compassion)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tàn nhẫn adj (without pity or compassion)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
"LGBT communities around the world are calling you a 'hero', and say that you were framed," Al-Sayib explained. "But the law enforcement agencies are all labeling you as a ruthless murderer. Which one are you, Dima?"
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Among the manufacturers of so-called consumer electronics, there's ruthless, cut-throat competition.
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He's greedy and ruthless.
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