Definition of Ruthlessly

1. Adverb. In a ruthless manner. "The government has been urged to take immediate action to deal ruthlessly with the strikers"

Partainyms: Ruthless

Definition of Ruthlessly

1. Adverb. In a ruthless manner; with cruelty; without pity or compassion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ruthlessly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruthlessly

ruthenium radioisotopes
ruthenium red
rutheniums
ruthenocuprate
ruthenocuprates
rutherford
rutherfordine
rutherfordium
rutherfordiums
rutherfords
ruthful
ruthfully
ruthfulness
ruthfulnesses
ruthless
ruthlessly (current term)
ruthlessness
ruthlessnesses
ruths
rutic
rutic acid
rutidosis
rutilant
rutilate
rutilated
rutilates
rutilating
rutile
rutiles
rutilian

Literary usage of Ruthlessly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Challenging Horizons: QANTAS 1939-1954 by John Gunn (1987)
""Maybe they were ruthlessly right, but I could not help feeling that they were unco-operative with the Mother Country to which they pay so much homage. ..."

2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... nia with its population of 2900000 southern Slavs is added. during the period of reaction after 1849 as ruthlessly as the Magyars themselves. ..."

3. The New York Times Current History (1915)
"... nia with its population of 2600000 southern Slavs is added. during the period of reaction after 1849 as ruthlessly as the Magyars themselves. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"For the greater part of the last century the tree« were ruthlessly cut down and the bark Btri|i|)cd from them by the Indian collectons, no attempt being ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... who destroys ruthlessly many books for the sake of the extra illustration of other books (originally Granger's History of England, ..."

6. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"The dying victim was ruthlessly dispatched on the sacred spot where he lay; and, almost at the same moment, Sir Robert Comyn, the uncle, entering the ..."

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