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noun

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
Adjective
In a competition bear-ly more ferocious, 12 chunky brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve have been battling it out in one of the most cutthroat places on the planet – the internet. Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025 Polaha plays Dick Hall, the president of Meridian Mortgage who is taken hostage by Tony Kiritsis (Ribisi), who publicly accuses him on being a greedy and cutthroat monster. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
But around the same time was the birth of cutthroat, winner-takes all reality TV and shows that focused on anti-heroes. Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025 But the truth is, the Hollywood industry is crazy, magical, surreal and cutthroat. Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cutthroat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutthroat
Adjective
  • Those hoping to snatch a home in this busy period faced limited options on the market, as the country’s developers had chronically underbuilt compared to demand in the years following the subprime mortgage crisis, leading to ruthless bidding wars and climbing home values.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Hedda orchestrates a ruthless game of manipulation, where lust, jealousy and betrayal collide.
    Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pursued by brutal mercenaries and a deadly assassin, the trio must navigate twists, betrayals and historical secrets buried deep in Europe’s past.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Mistaken for the world’s deadliest assassin, Ben becomes the perfect decoy for Eden.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The committee voted to ask Attorney General Josh Kaul to opine on whether grooming falls under the statute related to immoral conduct, which allows DPI to revoke a license if an educator violates it.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • It was considered immoral to lie and the whole point of writing things down back then was to increase morality and improve society, so there really is no didactic history of forgery.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That case went cold as the murderers were never caught.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The place is the Savin Bar + Kitchen, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, where immediately inside the front door, patrons are greeted by a larger-than-life framed mugshot of Bulger — the mob-boss, murderer, bank robber, drug dealer and extortionist — peering cooly out from under his fedora.
    Tovia Smith, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The technology included corrupt automatic shuffling machines that read cards and predicted which player had the best hand.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Porter’s story was viewed largely as a cautionary tale of a corrupt athlete… until this week, when the FBI dropped news of a much wider NBA betting scandal that shed light on Porter’s possible motivations.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For two decades, an unidentified serial killer terrorized young couples throughout small towns in Florence, Italy.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Christopher Revak, who took his own life after being charged with murder, may have been a serial killer, police believe.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But what first sounded the Republic’s death knell, before Hitler ever became Chancellor, were unscrupulous politicians hostile to the Republic, who were willing to use political violence to do away with democratic institutions.
    Time, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Scorpios are determined for greatness and will do anything to achieve that status — even things that are unscrupulous and vengeful.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In the past, that’s opened small businesses to frivolous lawsuits filed by unprincipled lawyers that file massive lawsuits and offer quick settlements.
    Erica Goldstein, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Rule by ‘ambitious, and unprincipled men’ Partisanship is the primary problem for the American republic, according to Washington.
    Robert A. Strong, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Cutthroat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutthroat. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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