as in ruthless
not guided by or showing a concern for what is right
cutthroat business practices intended to drive competitors out of business
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as in assassin
a person who kills another person
while traveling the ancient Silk Road, traders were constant prey to cutthroats and thieves
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Recent Examples of cutthroat
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
The show, which follows the cutthroat lives of luxury real estate agents at The Oppenheim Group in Los Angeles, first premiered in 2019.
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Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 May 2026
The Rainmaker for Season 2. In recurring roles, Kay will play Megan Grenier, the razor-sharp right hand to cutthroat attorney Amanda Vonn (Merle Dandridge), and O’Halloran as Boone McCready, a rising star pitcher on the team that Tom Cassidy, Bruiser’s ex-husband, coaches.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
21 May 2026
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Set in the 1980s, when Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles novels were first released, Rivals is a tongue-in-cheek period drama about the cutthroat world of regional-television franchises, whose characters backstab and smoke and screw with relish.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
The show, which follows the cutthroat lives of luxury real estate agents at The Oppenheim Group in Los Angeles, first premiered in 2019.
—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
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More accolades followed, as Wyatt's steamy Bold entrance on a 2013 episode (being spied naked in an outdoor shower by Kim Matula's Hope Logan) announced a major new player in the soap's setting in the cutthroat Los Angeles fashion industry.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 May 2026
The Rainmaker for Season 2. In recurring roles, Kay will play Megan Grenier, the razor-sharp right hand to cutthroat attorney Amanda Vonn (Merle Dandridge), and O’Halloran as Boone McCready, a rising star pitcher on the team that Tom Cassidy, Bruiser’s ex-husband, coaches.
—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
21 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutthroat
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Canadian quartet Truck Violence have been sloshing together these subgenres in a ruthless manner for several years now, and their sophomore album and debut for the Flenser aims for even higher drops between those peaks and valleys.
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There was relative peace for 11 years, until a second civil war erupted in 1983, when leaders in Khartoum imposed sharia (Islamic) law and accelerated repression of the southern Christian rebels, which ultimately allowed a ruthless military officer, Omar al-Bashir, to come to power in 1989.
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The report’s key finding was that an odd, angry, 24-year-old assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had acted alone, for reasons nobody could quite figure out.
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Unfortunately, Daemon’s hired assassins killed Aegon’s young son Jaehaerys instead so any real possibility for a family reconciliation was lost.
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These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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The artist wrote that keeping silent on this kind of behavior is akin to turning a blind eye to immoral behavior.
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There can be legitimate debate on immigration, but Trump veers into sinister areas of xenophobia of invading rapists and murderers.
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It was censored in France, and later linked to a real-life murderer.
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Johnson County He was arrested last August on charges of abuse of office and corrupt influence.
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The kidnappings have been linked to run-ins with drug cartels and corrupt government officials, while there have also been cases involving young women who worked at the country’s many factories.
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Inside, the lobby sets a welcoming, midcentury tone with killer tunes, Swedish kili armchairs, beachy lifestyle coffee table books, and 1970s stoneware lighting.
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Scores of protesters appeared in front of the Supreme Court in late April to support people who say they were harmed by the weed killer and other chemicals, in allegiance with the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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The main shell is then salvaged, with the most valuable parts sold by unscrupulous vendors to repair shops and consumers, often via the Internet.
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Indeed, once the former’s economic situation forces them to withdraw from hosting duties just four years before kickoff, the opportunist pulls out every unscrupulous trick in the book to thwart the rival bids from, ironically, Canada and USA.
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Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.
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Practically all the public’s attention has been on the president and his oddball or vengeful or unprincipled actions.
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“Cutthroat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutthroat. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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