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ruthlessness

noun as in barbarity

noun as in vengefulness

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So you get to see a little bit of the Robin Hood thing and his family life, and then his ruthlessness.

Its founder was Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai, a Pahstun known for his ruthlessness in a regime that extolled extremism.

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark for its ruthlessness.

House of Cards appears to posit that ruthlessness is next to godliness.

And it is a police state whose mukhabarat chief is a KGB-trained spymaster with a reputation for ruthlessness.

Even those who admitted the wisdom and glory of his rule shrank from its terrible ruthlessness.

The atrocities of the soldiers and the yeomanry were avenged with a fiendish ruthlessness.

The instalment of constitutional government granted was shorn of its grace by the antecedent display of ruthlessness.

Janet was shocked by the ruthlessness of it, for Lise appeared relieved, almost gay.

They lined their pockets well, plundering those in their power with the ruthlessness characteristic of the Oriental character.

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On this page you'll find 363 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ruthlessness, such as: barbarity, brutality, crime, evil, horror, and inhumanity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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