Thesaurus / ruthlessness
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synonyms for ruthlessness
- brutality
- inhumanity
- evil
- crime
- barbarity
- horror
- savagery
- infamy
- iniquity
- abomination
- monstrosity
- wrong
- offense
- outrage
- enormity
- viciousness
- harshness
- grudge
- antagonism
- acrimony
- hostility
- malice
- resentment
- enmity
- venom
- ill will
- animus
- bad blood
- animosity
- hatred
- mordacity
- vengefulness
- umbrage
- pique
- dudgeon
- hate
- spite
- malevolence
- acerbity
- antipathy
- malignity
- vengeance
- virulence
- vindictiveness
- spleen
- retaliation
- spitefulness
- aversion
- variance
- resentfulness
- unfriendliness
- bile
- hardness of heart
- ill feeling
- revengefulness
- uncharitableness
- retribution
- attack
- vengeance
- reprisal
- counterblow
- return
- malevolence
- sortie
- vengefulness
- fight
- satisfaction
- spitefulness
- requital
- repayment
- vindictiveness
- rancor
- animus
- eye for an eye
- ill will
- measure for measure
- tit for tat
- implacability
- counterinsurgency
- avenging
- counterplay
- avengment
- getting even
- savagery
- inhumanity
- cruelty
- barbarity
- barbarism
- atrocity
- fierceness
- grossness
- sadism
- ferocity
- viciousness
- third degree
- bloodthirstiness
- savageness
- unfeelingness
- brutishness
- choke hold
- brutality
- inhumanity
- depravity
- malice
- barbarity
- persecution
- barbarism
- ferocity
- viciousness
- severity
- bestiality
- rancor
- despotism
- sadism
- wickedness
- spite
- animality
- fierceness
- venom
- torture
- insensibility
- malignity
- coarseness
- truculence
- spitefulness
- coldness
- truculency
- callousness
- insensitiveness
- unfeelingness
- murderousness
- mercilessness
- unkindness
- heartlessness
- bloodthirstiness
- savageness
- masochism
- brutishness
- fiendishness
- hard-heartedness
- grudge
- spite
- vengefulness
- malice
- resentment
- cruelty
- retaliation
- revenge
- implacableness
- rancorousness
- mercilessness
- malice
- bestiality
- rancor
- despotism
- sadism
- wickedness
- severity
- spite
- animality
- fierceness
- venom
- depravity
- ferocity
- viciousness
- torture
- insensibility
- malignity
- persecution
- barbarism
- brutality
- coarseness
- savagery
- inhumanity
- spitefulness
- coldness
- truculency
- barbarity
- insensitiveness
- unfeelingness
- callousness
- murderousness
- mercilessness
- unkindness
- heartlessness
- bloodthirstiness
- savageness
- masochism
- brutishness
- fiendishness
- hard-heartedness
- malice
- bestiality
- rancor
- despotism
- sadism
- wickedness
- severity
- spite
- animality
- fierceness
- venom
- depravity
- ferocity
- viciousness
- torture
- insensibility
- malignity
- persecution
- barbarism
- brutality
- coarseness
- savagery
- truculence
- spitefulness
- coldness
- barbarity
- inhumanity
- insensitiveness
- unfeelingness
- callousness
- murderousness
- mercilessness
- unkindness
- heartlessness
- bloodthirstiness
- savageness
- masochism
- brutishness
- fiendishness
- hard-heartedness
- grudge
- spite
- malice
- resentment
- spitefulness
- cruelty
- retaliation
- revenge
- implacableness
- rancorousness
- mercilessness
- savagery
- torture
- inhumanity
- malice
- barbarity
- persecution
- barbarism
- bestiality
- rancor
- despotism
- sadism
- wickedness
- severity
- spite
- animality
- fierceness
- venom
- depravity
- ferocity
- viciousness
- insensibility
- malignity
- coarseness
- truculence
- spitefulness
- coldness
- callousness
- insensitiveness
- unfeelingness
- murderousness
- mercilessness
- unkindness
- heartlessness
- bloodthirstiness
- savageness
- masochism
- brutishness
- fiendishness
- hard-heartedness
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How to use ruthlessness in a sentence
Even those who admitted the wisdom and glory of his rule shrank from its terrible ruthlessness.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, VOLUME VIII (OF 8)JOHN RICHARD GREENThe atrocities of the soldiers and the yeomanry were avenged with a fiendish ruthlessness.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, VOLUME VIII (OF 8)JOHN RICHARD GREENThe instalment of constitutional government granted was shorn of its grace by the antecedent display of ruthlessness.
MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND VOL. IV OF IV.CHARLES L. GRAVESJanet was shocked by the ruthlessness of it, for Lise appeared relieved, almost gay.
THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILLThey lined their pockets well, plundering those in their power with the ruthlessness characteristic of the Oriental character.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSIt is more subtle in its operation but of the same order of ruthlessness as the ravages of a carnivore.
MAKERS OF BRITISH BOTANY; A COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES BY LIVING BOTANISTSVARIOUSIt had been devastated with all the ruthlessness of an Asiatic conqueror.
THE PACIFICATION OF BURMASIR CHARLES HAUKES TODD CROSTHWAITEHe had looked on with cool ruthlessness while grey-haired nobles were hurried to the block.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, VOLUME III (OF 8)JOHN RICHARD GREENWallie felt no qualms of guilt or conscience at the cold-blooded ruthlessness of his plans.
THE LONE RANGER RIDESFRAN STRIKERHe commits his crime with the ruthlessness of a beast, his own nature being wholly untamed.
THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS'S LAST PLOTANDREW LANGWORDS RELATED TO RUTHLESSNESS
- animality
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutishness
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fiendishness
- fierceness
- hard-heartedness
- heartlessness
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malice
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- persecution
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculence
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.