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
Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
Fashion media still remains one of the most cutthroat worlds.
—Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 29 Aug. 2025
Michael Saponara, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2025
Plus, the cutthroat strategizing resulted in a dramatic (read: hilarious) rose ceremony.
—EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Schools can either opt into the agreement and begin paying athletes, as both CU and Colorado State University have, or risk falling behind in an industry that grows increasingly more cutthroat with each passing year.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
Fashion media still remains one of the most cutthroat worlds.
—Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
His honeyed flows quickly turn to menacing street tales, narrating his cutthroat rise in Zone 6.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2025
Plus, the cutthroat strategizing resulted in a dramatic (read: hilarious) rose ceremony.
—EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutthroat
Adjective
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While team boss Toto Wolff appreciates both, he is known for being ruthless when push comes to shove.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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Thanks to the tethering process, his memories of the last year have been wiped, leaving only a man known as Red, a ruthless shadow and former contract killer for a cruel, mercurial billionaire.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That assassin went on to seriously wound a colleague of Hortman and her husband and had a hit list of forty-four Democrats.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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Disney, the parent company of ABC, removed the late-night comedian from its airwaves after a conservative outcry over Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassin culminated in public pressure from FCC Chair Brendan Carr.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, cousin Edmund, an aspiring clergyman, falls under the charms of Mary Crawford, written by Austen as a charming but immoral woman.—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
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Ladapo said the decision was not reached according to the data, but instead on his view that vaccine mandates are immoral and outside the scope of the government’s authority.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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With Charlie Hunnam in the leading role, season 3 will dive into the haunting story of the notorious 1950s murderer who not only took multiple lives but also exhumed graves to create household and clothing items from human remains.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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The conservative influencer Candace Owens released an image purporting to show the alleged murderer at the outlet during an episode of her podcast.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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According to the latest 2024 Transparency International report, the Americas average 42 out of 100 points on a scale where 100 is very transparent and zero is very corrupt.—
Sofía Benavides,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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With the help of Landy and Nicky Parsons, Bourne goes up against Vosen (David Strathairn), the corrupt director of Operation Blackbriar.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Miami had found some urgency and regained the lead in the 66th minute when Jordi Alba, unusually in a central position, produced a killer defence-splitting pass to his former Barcelona teammate, who turned sharply and smartly before firing home from inside the box.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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The available evidence suggests that Kirk’s alleged killer, a twenty-two-year-old man from Utah without any clear political affiliation, acted alone.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The same words apply to the title character at the film‘s center, the inscrutable and seemingly unscrupulous Hedda Gabler (a magnetic Tessa Thompson), here yanked firmly from the late 20th century setting of Henrik Ibsen’s iconic play into the ’50s, and not missing a single trick along the way.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
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Lawmakers in many states have changed the rules in recent decades to protect winners from being targeted by criminals and unscrupulous people asking for money.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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 22 Sep. 2025.
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